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Exclusive: The investigation followed a string of cases where Black and Asian people have faced prosecution for hate crimes after using specific language to criticise other people from ethnic minority communities

She was Britain’s first Muslim cabinet minister – and has faced questions for years about why she was in the Conservative party. Yesterday, she resigned the whip. She explains why

Avoiding political debate with crude and insulting tags such as ‘coconut’ stifles diversity of thought

Marieha Hussain, who depicted Sunak and Braverman as coconuts, says only people who do not understand the term find it offensive

On Friday afternoon, as District Judge, Vanessa Lloyd, read out a not-guilty verdict, cheers and whoops erupted from the public gallery at Westminster magistrates’ court. On the floor of the courtroom, a nine-month-pregnant woman named Marieha Hussain instantly broke down in tears. The ruling was the culmination of an almost…

Marieha Hussain’s placard featuring Sunak and Braverman was political satire: she should never have been hauled in front of a judge to prove it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Exclusive: It has emerged that the academic, 41, was approached by the Metropolitan Police in April to lend his expertise to a Crown Prosecution Service review into whether Marieha Hussain should be charged for her ‘coconuts’ placard.

Marieha Hussein attended a London march against the war in Gaza carrying a sign depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts

‘I do not see white people being prosecuted for calling other white people gammons,’ protester and lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu said