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Robinson, 35, was freed from jail on Wednesday after a flawed conviction for contempt of court was quashed by three Court of Appeal judges. The former English Defence League (EDL) leader will face a new contempt of court hearing at the Old Bailey later this year that could see him sent back to prison. He was jailed for committing contempt of court by filming and broadcasting a Facebook Live video outside a trial at Leeds Crown Court that was subject to blanket reporting restrictions. Last night Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, spoke about the case and his experiences behind bars in an interview on conservative TV channel Fox News with presenter Tucker Carlson. He was released from HMP Onley in Rugby on Wednesday after three leading judges in London quashed the contempt finding made at Leeds on May 25.

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Introducing Robinson, Carlson said he “must be bewildered” by the jail term that led to mass protests and an international campaign lobbying for his release. Robinson bemoaned his treatment in prison and described the process that convicted him as a “kangaroo court”. He told the host he was known for "criticising Islam" and that there had been "planned attempts" on his life in the UK. He claimed that he was put in solitary confinement after moving prisons, where he “spent two months not seeing or speaking to anybody”. During his prison term he said he lost "nearly 40lb" after living on a diet of one tin of tuna and a piece of fruit a day.

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Criticising his treatment, he compared the jail to Guantanamo Bay – a United States military prison where several detainees have alleged torture. He added: "I was supposed to be in Her Majesty's Prison Service, not Guantanamo Bay." Robinson told the show that other prisoners threw excrement and spat through his ground floor cell window. He explained: “We had huge heatwaves so I was drenched everyday and I have excrement and spit thrown through the windows. “In the end I had to block up all of my windows.”

When asked about the contempt of court allegations outside Leeds Crown Court, Robinson maintained that he did not know what he had done wrong. “I still do not know what it is I’m deemed to have done wrong,” he claimed. He argued he had been the victim of "hatchet jobs" from the "mainstream media". He added: "This case, the world has watched it, it's shocked them, for me this has been nothing new."

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Robinson could still face jail over an allegation that he committed contempt of court by filming people in a criminal trial and broadcasting footage on social media. The Section 4 (2) order, known as a “postponement order”, made it illegal for anyone, in any format, to publish information on the case until the last trial had finished. Because the trial was linked to other hearings, even fair and accurate reporting of the case could have led to its collapse, hence the strict restrictions. Judges rejected his lawyers' argument that there should not be a fresh hearing because he has already served the equivalent of a four-month sentence.

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The Prison Service has disputed the claims made by Robinson about being held in solitary confinement in his interview with Fox News. A spokesman said: "Mr Yaxley-Lennon was treated with the same fairness we aim to show all prisoners – he had access to visits, television and showers – and it is totally false to say he was held in 'solitary confinement’. "He was initially placed into the Care & Separation Unit for less than 48 hours while an assessment of the risk to his safety was undertaken by prison staff. “He then joined the main prison population."