Marieha Hussain, 37, denied the prosecution's allegation that the placard was 'racially abusive' and her trial heard that she 'quite obviously does not have a racist bone in her body'.
A teacher who held a placard at a pro-Palestine protest depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts has been found not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence.
'The laws on hate speech must serve to protect us more but this trial shows that these rules are being weaponised to target ethnic minorities. Clearing Ms Hussain, district judge Vanessa Lloyd said: 'I find that it was part of the genre of political satire and, as such, the prosecution have not proved to the criminal standard that it was abusive.
Read More Teacher who waved placard showing Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts at pro-Palestinian march is interviewed under caution by police 'That Marieha Hussain of all people is being prosecuted for a racially aggravated offence whilst the likes of Suella Braverman and Nigel Farage and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - aka Tommy Robinson - and Frank Hester are seemingly free to make inflammatory and divisive statements ... is, I'm afraid, incomprehensible to many people.
He questioned why the prosecution did not produce an expert to say the term 'coconut' is a racial slur and why they did not call someone who was offended by Hussain's placard to give evidence.
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