Bob Stewart, 74, allegedly abused Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outside the Foreign Office's Lancaster House building while the politician was attending an event to mark the National Day of Bahrain.
Bob Stewart allegedly abused Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei in Westminster, LondonA Tory MP demonstrated 'racial hostility' when he called an activist a 'stupid man' and told him to 'go back to Bahrain,' a court heard.
Mr Alwadaei told the court that he was there because he had been beaten and tortured in Bahrain during the Arab Spring and said if he did return, he would 'undoubtedly be killed and tortured'. Paul Jarvis, prosecuting, said: 'We say that the words used by Mr Stewart were abusive. We say in effect that what he was stating was that he is not of this country, and that he should go back to where he came from.
He went back to Bahrain in 2010 during the Arab Spring and returned to the UK in 2012 after he was abused by the police.
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