The female star of Baby Reindeer says she felt a sense of responsibility for her co-star Richard Gadd, who wrote the Netflix drama about a stalker and her victim, based on his own real-life experience of being targeted.
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J.K. Rowling has dared police to arrest her as she expressed her opposition to new hate crime legislation that has just come into force in Scotland.The new laws came into force today (April 1), making it a crime to “stir up hatred” on the basis of age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
A person commits an offence if they communicate material, or behave in a manner, “that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive”, with the intention of inciting hatred based on one of these characteristics. Separate laws will be brought in to tackle misogyny as a specific offence.Rowling decried the new legislation in a lengthy thread on X/Twitter in which she singled out and attacked numerous trans women over them them legally having a protected characteristic.“I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” she wrote.She added that “freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland” if what she termed “the accurate description of biological sex” is “deemed criminal.”However, Scotland’s First Minster Humza Yousef has addressed the “disinformation” being spread about the bill, particularly by gender-critical groups, claiming there is a “triple lock” of protection for speech – an explicit clause on free speech, a defence for any accused person’s actions being “reasonable” and the act being compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.Rowling was reported to the police last month over accusations of transphobic abuse, after she said the broadcaster India Willoughby – who was mentioned in
.The female star of Baby Reindeer says she felt a sense of responsibility for her co-star Richard Gadd, who wrote the Netflix drama about a stalker and her victim, based on his own real-life experience of being targeted.
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J.K. Rowling will not be prosecuted, police have said, following comments the author made about new hate crime laws online.Yesterday (April 1), Rowling dared police to arrest her as she expressed her opposition to new hate crime legislation that has just come into force in Scotland.The new laws came into force yesterday, making it a crime to “stir up hatred” on the basis of age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
Police Scotland will not take further action against JK Rowling after the force received complaints over her blistering attack on Scotland's new hate crime laws.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling's posts about Scotland's new hate crime law are "not criminal", Police Scotland have said.
Ellise Shafer U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed J.K. Rowling after the “Harry Potter” author spoke out against Scotland’s new hate crime act, daring the police to arrest her for misgendering trans women.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling over her stance on Scotland’s new hate crime laws.
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