Шведийн уур амьсгалын судлаач Андреас Малмыг Их Британийн засгийн газар хилээр нэвтрэхийг хориглосон нь эрх баригчдын зүгээс үзэл бодлыг хянах гэсэн оролдлого хэмээн шүүмжлэл дагуулж байна.
Шведийн эрдэмтэн Андреас Малмын Их Британи руу зорчих цахим зөвшөөрлийг (ETA) хүчингүй болгосон байна. Британийн цагаачлалын алба түүнийг “нийтийн сайн сайханд харшилсан” гэх үндэслэлээр хилээр нэвтрэхийг хориглосон бөгөөд үүнийгээ тодорхой тайлбарлаагүй аж. Малмын үзэж буйгаар, уг шийдвэр нь түүний ирэх лхагва гарагт Палестины эрхийн төлөө тэмцэгч Palestine Action байгууллагын үүсгэн байгуулагч Худа Амморитой хамт оролцохоор төлөвлөсөн арга хэмжээтэй холбоотой байж болзошгүй гэжээ.
Дотоод хэргийн яам хувь хүний хэргийн талаар мэдээлэл өгөх боломжгүй гэсэн байр суурийг илэрхийлсэн байна. Гэсэн хэдий ч эх сурвалжийн мэдээлснээр, зөвшөөрлийг цуцлах шийдвэр нь тухайн хүний Британийн нийгэмд учруулж болзошгүй эрсдэлийн үнэлгээнд үндэслэсэн гэв.
Энэхүү шийдвэр нь улс төрийн хүрээнд өргөн шүүмжлэл дагуулаад байна. Тухайлбал, Хөдөлмөрийн намын гишүүн Клайв Льюис засгийн газар эрдэмтдийн улс төрийн үзэл бодлын улмаас хилээр нэвтрэхийг хориглож байгаа нь ардчилсан нийгэмд аюултай жишиг тогтоож байна хэмээн мэдэгджээ.
Banning academic and author Andreas Malm from entering Britain to stop him from speaking alongside myself, a Palestine Action co-founder, is another disgusting attack on free speech as a result of the draconian ban. The ban must be overturned.
— Huda Ammori (@HudaAmmori) October 30, 2026
Малм нь өмнө нь “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” номыг бичиж, саботаж болон эд хөрөнгө устгахыг идэвхтэнүүдийн хувьд ёс суртахууны хувьд үндэслэлтэй арга хэмжээ хэмээн сурталчилж байсан юм. Тэрээр өөрийн байр суурийг илэрхийлсээр ирсэн ч Palestine Action байгууллагыг дэмждэггүй гэдгээ мэдэгдсэн байна. Тэрээр үргэлжлүүлэн видео холбоосоор дамжуулан төлөвлөсөн арга хэмжээндээ оролцохоо баталжээ.
Дэлгэрэнгүйг эх сурвалжаас харах
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The Swedish climate academic Andreas Malm has condemned a travel ban imposed on him by the UK government as a “drift into authoritarianism” amid criticism of the move.
Malm, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, said he had been “kept in the dark” by the UK’s immigration authorities over the reasons for his electronic travel authorisation (ETA) being revoked.
He said he had only been told that his presence in the UK was “not considered to be conducive to the public good”, as the Guardian revealed.
Speaking to Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday, he speculated that the only plausible rationale for the ban was his advertised appearance at a conference next Wednesday alongside Huda Ammori, a co-founder of the proscribed group Palestine Action.
He said: “I cannot see any other explanation than the scheduled appearance of me on stage for a panel on Wednesday evening in London, together with Huda Ammori. That … makes me somehow a terrorist or associated with terrorism, and therefore barred from travelling to the UK. That’s pretty scandalous.”
He added: “What I am going through here is just a very small part of a major trend: this drift into authoritarianism that is targeting the Palestine movement, the climate movement, and others who oppose the destructive forces that are in control of this world. And that’s a very sad thing.”
Malm confirmed to the Guardian that he would speak via video link at the event organised by Tribune magazine.
In his BBC interview, he denied supporting or helping to finance Palestine Action. But Malm, who has long campaigned for Palestinian rights, added: “You might be able to guess my opinions and sympathies.”
The Home Office said it could not discuss individual cases. However, a source said: “Decisions to refuse or cancel an ETA on the grounds that presence in the UK may not be conducive to public good are based solely on an assessment of the potential risk an individual may pose to UK society.”
Malm said: “I don’t have any concrete evidence for what this is all about. I’m left in the dark. I have asked for clarification, explanation. I haven’t received any.”
Malm was challenged on Today over whether his description of the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 as an “act of liberation” could be the reason for the ban.
He replied: “It could be. But my views about what happened on 7 October and in Palestine have been in the public realm for a long time. I was most recently in the UK in May.”
Malm added: “I’ve done nothing in public that is associated with Palestine Action. I have not publicly supported them or promoted them in any way.”
Malm said he was invited to speak alongside Ammori to discuss the war in Iran.
“So, what they’re preventing here is for us to have a discussion about the drivers of the imperial aggression in the Middle East,” he said.
“The only link to Palestine Action is her [Ammori] as a person. If you continue with these guilt-by-association links, then presumably if I am a threat to the public good in the UK by dint of talking to her, then someone who talks to me presumably is also a threat to the public good. Where does that end?”
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The travel ban has been widely criticised. The author Sally Rooney said it was a “sad and frightening act of cultural self-harm”.
In a post on X, the Green party leader, Zack Polanski, said: “This all feels very much Starmer’s Labour government 2.0. An extraordinary attack on free speech from Andy Burnham.”
The Labour MP Clive Lewis, who last year offered to stand down from his Norwich South seat to allow Andy Burnham the chance to return to parliament, said: “When any government starts barring academics for their political views, alarm bells should be ringing.
“If ministers have evidence Andreas Malm is dangerous, produce it. Otherwise, this looks like political censorship dressed up as public safety. That’s a dangerous road for any democracy.”
Ammori said in a post on X: “Banning academic and author Andreas Malm from entering Britain to stop him from speaking alongside myself, a Palestine Action co-founder, is another disgusting attack on free speech as a result of the draconian ban. The ban must be overturned.”
Neal Lawson, the director of the thinktank Compass, tweeted: “This makes me ashamed to be British and ashamed of an @UKLabour government that enacts illiberal attempts to stifle legitimate voices.”
The former shadow chancellor John McDonnell wrote: “You would have thought there was someone in government to appreciate the irony of effectively censoring someone who wanted to come here to discuss censorship. Home Office policy-making has degenerated into dangerous farce.”
How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which inspired a film of the same name, argues that sabotage and destroying property are morally and strategically justified forms of activism.
