UK: Reporter faces threats as regulator fails to protect her from hijab criticism
By Ingrida Milkaite
TV reporter Fatima Manji, a speaker at the ECPMF's 2016 conference in Leipzig, fears further threats after Britain’s press regulator threw out her complaint against The Sun newspaper. Manji, a Muslim woman, reported for Channel 4 News on the deadly terror attacks in Nice, which led to criticism by a commentator in the British newspaper this summer.
Fatima Manji at the ECPMF Media freedom conference 2016 (photo: ECPMF/Lamm)
The Sun article by Kelvin MacKenzie attacked Manji and her employer Channel 4 News, expressing that someone in a hijab (headscarf) should not present news of a…
