He was arrested at Belfast City airport after arriving on a flight on Thursday evening.
Prominent Northern Ireland loyalist David ‘Dee’ Stitt has been refused bail after appearing in court charged with publishing material with the intent of stirring up hatred.
The charge relates to a single post on Facebook on July 31 where Stitt shared a copy-and-pasted call for protests across Northern Ireland in response to the murder of three young girls in Southport. The judge said there was “no hierarchy” of individuals within the community and said there was a “fundamental problem” with regard to people who viewed some religions as evil.
Mr Booth said his client had no intention of inciting violence and he was only exerting his right to freedom of expression and right to peaceful protest. He said that in July, Stitt had worked with police and the St John’s Ambulance at bonfire sites in North Down and had ensured that Irish tricolour flags were removed from loyalist bonfires in the area.
Belfast Magistrates Court Bangor PSNI
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