When Marieha Hussain posed for a photo with a homemade placard, she had no idea what it would lead to.
Marieha Hussain had marched for three hours with her family, and the children with them were getting tired.
On one side of the placard was a cartoon of Suella Braverman, then the Home Secretary, dressed like Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians. Ms Hussain held up the sign and posed.“And that was it.” Ms Hussain told the court that on the drive home from the demonstration, a family friend messaged to tell her that her photo had been posted by an anonymous right-wing blog called Harry’s Place and that it was going viral on X .
In the 10 months since that day, anonymous accounts on social media called her a racist while tabloid newspapers published details of her family and the cost of her parents’ home. Ms Hussain, 37, also lost her job as a secondary school teacher. She was not formally charged until six months later, in May this year. She found out she was charged from a journalist working for Al Jazeera, she told the court.
Prosecutor Jonathan Bryan argued coconut was a well-known racial slur. " a very clear meaning – you may be brown on the outside, but you are white on the inside,” Mr Bryan told the court.Mr Bryan said that Ms Hussain had crossed the line from legitimate political expression to racial insult. “The word ‘coconut’ didn’t fall out of a coconut tree, to quote Kamala Harris’s mum,” Mr Abbey told me after the trial’s first day, adding that the word “fell out of our experience as former colonised people”.“This is our language,” he said. “We share this language because we share a history, we share origins and share a community… You cannot criminalise people’s history, and the language that emerged from that.
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