Nigel Farage to champion Lucy Connolly in warning of threat to UK free speech | Politics | News
Nigel Farage will tell the story of Lucy Connolly when he gave evidence at the Free Speech hearing with his Allies of Key Donald Trump in September. Reform British leader will testify to members of Congress in Washington to believe that freedom of expression should be watched in the UK.
Ms. Connolly, who was released from prison on Thursday, was sentenced to 31 months in prison for provoking racial hatred after asking people to open fire to housing asylum seekers in a social media mission. Mr. Farage said his case would be “a very central point of what I’m discussing”. Despite the European Convention on Human Rights, he criticized the imprisonment of the imprisonment stating that provoking racial hatred was not covered by freedom of expression.
Ms. Connolly was found guilty of provoking racial hatred after calling for mass deportation in X, and said that “if you don’t care, get treacherous government politicians with them” full of F ******. “
The 42 -year -old wife of a Toray Assembly member was sentenced to 31 months in prison last October.
Nigel Farage will share his story with the Assembly Judicial Committee in Capitol on 3 September. TelegramAt a time when the Trump administration expresses concerns about the free conversation that the UK is “with great concern”.
The committee is a republican congress member Jim Jordan and a large number of Trump ally.
A report from the US Department of State has created concerns called “serious restrictions” on freedom of expression in the UK. After the Southport attack and subsequent rebellions, government officials claimed that there were interventions to “calm the conversation”.
Upon his release on Thursday, Mr. Farage said his treatment means “now a symbol of Keir Starmer’s authoritarian, broken, two -stage Britain”.
Connolly in the first newspaper interview since its release telegram He saw himself and as the political prisoners of the prime minister.
He said: “He is a human rights lawyer, so perhaps what people have human rights, what freedom of speaking means, and what the laws are in this country.”
Under the guidance of royal prosecution, encouraging racial hatred is a criminal offense in the UK and does not cover with freedom of expression.
