Technology billionaire Elon Musk has called for British activist Tommy Robinson to be released from prison.
In a series of posts on X on Thursday the US technology billionaire said Robinson, who founded the far-right English Defence League, “should be freed”.
“Why is Tommy Robinson in a solitary confinement prison for telling the truth?” Musk wrote.
“He should be freed and those who covered up this travesty should take his place in that cell.”
Robinson has a string of UK criminal convictions and is serving an 18-month jail term after he admitted contempt of court in a long-running libel case involving a Syrian refugee.
In his posts Musk linked to the video that was at the centre of Robinson's libel case and criticised British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer for his response to grooming scandals when he served as the country’s chief prosecutor over more than a decade ago.
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