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Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 12 March 2026

Debate

Anti-Muslim Hostility: Non-statutory Definition

Contribution

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend and the working group on a very clear, common-sense definition. Does she agree that it is a very useful public educational tool, not least for signposting actual hard law, such as articles in the human rights convention on free expression and discrimination, and, as my noble friend said, for being clear that free speech, including critique of religion, is protected?

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