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Free speech hotline launched in response to hate crime law

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The Free Speech Union is launching a hotline for anyone arrested or contacted by the police under Scotland’s hate crime law. The group, which campaigns for freedom of speech, said it had attracted 1,000 new Scottish members in recent weeks as the row over the new law intensifies. The organisation has also signed a deal with the legal firm Levy & McRae to fund them to represent any free speech cases arising from the new legislation.

John Boothman, The Times, 4th April 2024.

Police Delete Tory MP’s “Non-Crime Hate Incident” Record

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The Free Speech Union, which is also working north of the border on Tory MSP Murdo Fraser’s case, took on Maclean’s. They have now succeeded in, following an apology from the police, getting the “incident” deleted altogether by establishing that what Maclean said does not represent a “real risk of significant harm to individuals or groups with a particular characteristic and/or a real risk that a future criminal offence may be committed against” them.

Guido Fawkes, 27th March 2024.

Furious Tory MSP threatens to sue police over ‘hate incident’ tweet row

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Murdo Fraser was reported to the force following the post on X in November comparing non-binary people to those who identify as cats. The tweet was deemed not to have amounted to a crime but was classed as a “hate incident”. The Mid Scotland and Fife MSP, supported by the Free Speech Union, is now threatening legal action to have the record deleted and for the force to change its hate crime policy.

Kate Harris, The Express, 26th March 2024.

Policing of free speech must end

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Mr [Murdo] Fraser called in the Free Speech Union to back a legal challenge on the basis that Police Scotland has ‘adopted a cavalier and disrespectful attitude towards me and my rights to freedom of expression and privacy, and the right to be informed of false and damaging information held on police records’.

Michael Blackley, Mail Online, 25th March 2024.

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