Musk calls for the release of jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson in the UK Far-right news

Tommy Robinson, who is serving an 18-month prison sentence, “should be released”, the US tech billionaire said.

Elon Musk She called for the release of jailed British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, and criticized British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for his response to grooming scandals when he served as the country’s attorney general for more than a decade.

In a flurry of social media posts on Thursday, the US tech billionaire said Robinson, who founded the far-right English Defense League and whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, “should be released”.

“Why is Tommy Robinson in solitary confinement because he told the truth?” Musk wrote on the social media platform X, which he owns, on Thursday.

“He must be released, and those who covered up this farce must take his place in that cell,” he wrote.

RobinsonA former football hooligan with a string of criminal convictions in the UK, he is serving an 18-month prison sentence after admitting contempt of court in a long-running libel case involving a Syrian refugee.

Musk also posted several posts about the grooming scandals that occurred over decades in a number of English towns and cities including Rochdale, Rotherham and Oldham until they were exposed more than a decade ago.

Musk shared various other accounts’ claims about the scandals and criticized Starmer’s response to the scandal.

“In the UK, serious crimes, such as rape, require the consent of the Crown Prosecution Service so that police can charge suspects. Who was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service when he allowed rape gangs to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013,” Criticizing the current British Prime Minister.

Starmer was Director of the Public Prosecution Service at the time and began prosecuting the grooming gang in Rochdale during his final year in the role, shortly after the scandal came to light. None of the investigations into the scandals have censured Starmer or found that he tried to prevent prosecutions.

In 2012, Starmer blamed the justice system’s flawed approach to dealing with sexual exploitation and ordered a sweeping restructuring of the Crown Prosecution Service’s responses to it.

Musk’s tweets about Robinson were supported by far-right figures, including Dutch politician Geert Wilders, as well as some right-wing YouTube channels that also called for his release.

The American tech billionaire’s latest intervention in UK politics comes after his recent announcement… supports For the far-right Alternative for Germany party, he claimed that the AfD was the only party that could “save” Germany as the country heads towards snap elections next month.

The German government accused him of interfering in the vote.

Musk has also publicly supported other far-right figures in Europe, including Nigel Farage of the UK’s Reform Party and Italian right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Musk was also a prominent financier and campaign supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump. Last month, Trump refuted claims that he had “ceded the presidency” to Musk.