“Criminalizing Dissent”

The police force at the centre of the Allison Pearson row has not investigated a controversial imam who called for “Zionists” to be destroyed.

Users of X, formerly Twitter, alerted Essex Police to comments by Shaykh Shams Ad-Duha Muhammad after footage of him calling for “punishment” of those who support the existence of Israel was posted.

The imam’s remarks came during a sermon at Hamptons Sports and Leisure Centre, in Chelmsford, last year. On Monday, Essex’s police, fire and crime commissioner had been due to speak at the same leisure centre before the address was cancelled with 90 minutes notice.

The police force investigating a newspaper columnist for allegedly inciting racial hatred has recorded 1,500 non-crime hate incidents in the past two years.

Essex police logged 702 non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) between June 2023 and June 2024 and 834 in the 12 months before that, freedom of information responses revealed.

Now even newspaper columnists are being investigated for their tweets.

As she was getting ready for a Remembrance Sunday memorial last weekend, Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson heard a knock at her door. Two policemen had turned up, she claims in an article published last night, to accuse her of a ‘non-crime hate incident’ – a tool used by police to record accusations of ‘hateful’ speech, even when no law has been broken. When she asked what tweet this was regarding, and who had made the complaint against her, she was rebuffed by the officers, according to her account.

The disciplinary hearing of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus has plunged into chaos amid uncertainty surrounding the police prosecutor, Vanessa Stewart (photo above). Noted for her controversial courtroom behaviour and facing allegations of procedural abuses, Stewart is on a six-month leave from the Ottawa Police Service to join the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

The Biden-Harris administration reportedly colluded with foreign government entities in silencing Americans’ free speech, and one congresswoman has had enough.

According to documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) in September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took advice from UK government censors on how best to crush speech. The shocking documents came amid Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) campaign to defund foreign censorship and prevent domestic election interference by suppressing speech. They also come after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to censoring COVID-19 speech after government pressure.

For Tyler Kay and Jordan Parlour, justice for what they posted on social media has come fast and heavy.

Kay, 26, and Parlour, 28, have been sentenced to 38 months and 20 months in prison respectively for stirring up racial hatred online during the summer riots.

Charges in the aftermath of the disorder felt like a significant moment, in which people had to face real-life consequences for what they said and did online.

There was widespread recognition that false claims and online hate contributed to the violence and racism on British streets in August. In their wake, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said social media “carries responsibility” for tackling misinformation.

“Transnational repression” is a little-known practice that refers to pressure exerted by a government, through illegal or violent means, to silence expat citizens of other nations, increasingly, those living in the West.