The six EDL thugs from Bradford in west Yorkshire were sentenced at Leeds Crown Court after pleading guilty at earlier hearings.
This comes after the EDL previously staged a demonstration in Cleckheaton in west Yorkshire on March 17 2012. After the protest, members of the fascist gang were said to have been involved in a series of incidents including racist abuse and a violent attack on an Asian man.
Judge Scott Wolstenholme said the offences involved “sustained and unprovoked racial violence by a group acting together in a crowded town centre.”
The leader of the EDL, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who also goes by the name of Tommy Robinson, was jailed this month for travelling to the US using a fake passport of someone else.
Despite the arrests, a written report on the website onislam.net suggests that analysts are concerned that the change in the far-right support in Britain could lead to a gradual shift from race-based far-right activism towards “cultural nationalism”, notably against Islam.
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