Bahar Mustafa, 28, a student diversity officer at
Goldsmiths, University of London, charged with sending threatening
communication
A student diversity
officer who came to prominence in a race row after allegedly tweeting the
hashtag #killallwhitemen has been charged by police with sending a threatening
communication.
Bahar
Mustafa, of Goldsmiths, University of London, is set to appear at Bromley
magistrates court on 5 November.
The
28-year-old from Edmonton, north-east London, faces two charges. One is sending
a communication conveying a threatening message between 10 November 2014 and 31
May 2015. The second is for sending a grossly offensive message via a public
communication network between 10 November 2014 and 31 May 2015.
Mustafa
was initially accused of racism for asking white men not to attend a students’
union meeting intended for ethnic minority and “non-binary” women.
She
then became embroiled in a separate row, accused of using the hashtag
#killallwhitemen on her Twitter account, which has since been deleted.
A
Met police spokesman said in a statement: “A woman interviewed under caution
regarding a complaint of racially motivated malicious communication made on a
social media network has been summonsed to court.”
Mustafa
is neither an employee of Goldsmiths nor a student, but an employee of the
independent students’ union, elected by union members.
Mustafa
remained in her position as welfare and diversity officer after a petition for
a motion of no confidence fell short of the 3% of union members required to
trigger a poll.
After
the furore, Mustafa denied that her initial request for white men to stay away
from a union meeting was racist or sexist, and said she had received rape and
death threats. Theguardian Jessica Elgot
