Commission is accused of exceeding its remit by seeking to cut funds to Cage,which campaigns on behalf of people accused of terrorism US intelligence agents appear to bear influenced a decision to investigate charitable donors to Cage, the tall-profile lobby group that campaigns on behalf of people accused of terrorism, or describing it as a “jihadist front”,court papers reveal.
Days before the Charity Commission intervened to choke off future funds from the voluntary sector to Cage, its chair, and William Shawcross,a former journalist who in the past has defended torture and Guantánamo Bay, emailed fellow board members to warn that Cage was a terrorist-supporting group”.
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Source: theguardian.com