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Now free speech hotline is set up amid row over Scottish hate crime laws – as JK Rowling blasts ‘illiberal’ Humza Yousaf after he called her trans tweets ‘upsetting and offensive’

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The Free Speech Union (FSU), led by social commentator Toby Young, says it has acquired an additional 1,000 new Scottish members in the last week following the enactment of the new Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act on April 1. It has signed a deal with legal firm Levy & McRae that will see the FSU fund them to represent free speech cases arising from the new legislation, which outlaws ‘stirring up’ hate based on race, age, religion, disability and transgender identity.

Jon Brady, Daily Mail, 5th April 2024.

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.

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