As a young Muslim woman, I am acutely aware of risks to my safety,' says Labour politician Zarah Sultana
By MEE staff
Zarah Sultana, a British Muslim MP with the Labour party, said on Friday that she had received “a death threat… filled with racist abuse” linked to her misreported views on Ukraine.
“I am in no doubt that this horrific and absurd attack is the direct result of inaccurate media reports and deliberately misleading press comments,” she wrote in a Facebook post.
A local BBC radio station apologised to her earlier in the week, she said, for falsely stating she had “suggested Nato is responsible for the crisis in Ukraine”.
Meanwhile, a Conservative in Coventry, where Sultana is an MP, called her an “agitator for Putin’s Russia,” she wrote.