YESTERDAY Hamit Coskun, a Kurdish-Armenian asylum-seeker from Turkey, was convicted of a criminal offence for burning a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish Consulate in London.
YESTERDAY three appeal judges doubled down on the State’s punitive treatment of Lucy Connolly for what her first judge decided was incitement to racial hatred. If her treatment hadn’t before, this further layer of brutality meted out to her will indeed make her case a cause célèbre.
‘FORMER MP Andrew Bridgen’s libel claim against Matt Hancock can go to trial, a High Court judge has ruled as she refused the former health secretary’s bid to end the claim’, the Independent reported on Monday.
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