Charges dropped over ‘Kill All White Men’ tweets

A STUDENT diversity officer who sparked a racism row and allegedly tweeted the ‘Kill All White Men’ has had charges against her dropped.

Charges dropped over ‘Kill All White Men’

A STUDENT union diversity officer who allegedly tweeted the hashtag ‘#KillAllWhiteMen’ has had charges against her dropped.

Bahar Mustafa, 28, was due to appear in a London court on Thursday on charges of sending a communication conveying a threatening message and sending a grossly offensive message via a public communication network, The Guardian reports.

In a letter to the Goldsmiths University welfare and diversity officer last week, the Crown Prosecution Service said the decision to drop the charges had been taken because there was “not enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction”.

However, The Guardian reports the CPS may reopen the case. “Following the decision to discontinue this case, one of the complainants has now requested a review of this decision,” the CPS said in a statement after the initial reports.

“It would not be appropriate to comment further on this case until this process has been completed.”

The original Facebook post.

Ms Mustafa caused a storm of controversy earlier this year over a series of alleged racist and sexist incidents, including hosting “black and minority ethnic women” only events banning “cis white men”.

Police in the UK, who have been cracking down on social media hate speech in recent years, investigated Ms Mustafa over the her alleged tweets. She had also used a university Twitter account to call a student activist “white trash”, for which she later apologised.

She maintained that she could not be racist as she is “an ethnic minority woman”.

“I, an ethnic minority woman, cannot be racist or sexist toward white men, because racism and sexism describe structures of privilege based on race and gender and therefore women of colour and minority genders cannot be racist or sexist since we do not stand to benefit from such a system,” she said.

A Change.org petition calling for her to be expelled from the university for hate speech attracted more than 27,000 signatures, but an attempt to remove her from her elected student union position failed after a petition calling for a motion of no confidence failed to attract the required three per cent of union members.

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