LONDON — A far-right Dutch lawmaker who was refused entry to Britain to stop him spreading "hatred and violent messages," won an appeal against the ban on Tuesday, a tribunal spokeswoman said.
Geert Wilders, 46, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), was sent back to the Netherlands on a plane shortly after being detained by immigration officials on arrival at London's Heathrow airport on February 12.
He had been invited to screen "Fitna" -- his controversial 17-minute film about Islam in the Netherlands -- in the House of Lords, Britain's unelected upper chamber of parliament.
The Home Office said at the time he was turned back to stop him spreading "hatred and violent messages", a decision he appealed to an asylum and immigration tribunal in London.
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