Julie Burchill agrees to pay Ash Sarkar substantial damages in libel case Archie Bland © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jeff Morgan 09/Alamy Stock Photo
The columnist Julie Burchill has apologised to the activist and journalist Ash Sarkar, and agreed to pay her “substantial damages”, after a series of social media posts in which she accused Sarkar of being an Islamist, a hypocrite and worshipping a paedophile.
In Twitter and Facebook posts and a statement published on Tuesday morning after the libel and harassment case was settled, Burchill said that her posts had “included racist and misogynist comments” and “played into Islamophobic tropes”. She wrote: “although it was not my intention, I accept that my statements were defamatory of Ms Sarkar and caused her very substantial distress”.
Julie Burchill pays Twitter libel damages to Ash Sarkar
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March 13, 2021 21:40 IST
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In his autobiography, Hamid Ansari, Vice-President for two terms, brings to the fore the predicament of Indian Muslims, who still live in the shadow of Partition
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