Tommy Robinson deported twice in 24 hours from Columbia and Panama

RIGHT wing activist Tommy Robinson was refused entry to two South American countries in the space of 24 hours after he was deemed to be a "threat to their national security."

Robinson, 42, who flew under his real name Stephen Lennon, said he flew to Colombia's capital Bogotá for a "break" after arranging last Saturday's "Uniting the Kingdom" rally which police have said was attended by about 150,000 people.

He planned to travel from there to some small islands, but in a video posted on X on Friday evening, with a copy of a deportation order, he said he had spent the last 24 hours on planes or in detention rooms.

Robinson, who founded the now defunct English Defence League, said he chose South America "because no one will really know me" so there would be "a low chance of any grief."

He said: "I landed at Bogotá and what do you think happened? Detained, threat to national security, deported, spent all day in a detention room."

He said officials allowed him to book a flight to Panama, instead of being returned to the UK, but it happened again.

He added: "I landed in Panama and what do you think happened? Detained and being deported. I've sat here now for six hours and spent the last 24 hours of my time on a plane and sat in rooms.

"So Colombia, the country that exports, what, beautiful women and narcos, that's it, has deemed me, because of my political beliefs, a threat to national security."

Mayor of Panama City, Mayer Mizrachi, later posted on X that he had been able to get Robinson's deportation stopped.

“Tommy’s resting easy in Panama,” he said. In April 2022 Robinson shared a video saying that he had been detained in Cancún airport in Mexico upon arrival with his children, before being deported on grounds of national security. In the new video he said he has a recording of Mexican border officials saying the UK asked him not to be let in.