Bob Stewart showed 'racial hostility' towards a protester during a demonstration outside a Foreign Office building, a court heard.
A Conservative MP has been found guilty of racially abusing an activist by telling him to 'go back to Bahrain'. The MP for Beckenham in southeast London told activist Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei 'you're taking money off my country, go away!' during a row in Westminster on December 14 last year. Mr Alwadaei shouted: 'Bob Stewart, for how much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini regime?' During a heated exchange, Stewart replied: 'Go away, I hate you.
'Because of my skin colour, because of where I came from, he feels I am taking money from his country.' 'Racial hostility' Mr Alwadaei also claimed that if he returned to Bahrain, he would 'undoubtedly be killed and tortured'. Prosecutor Paul Jarvis said Stewart had 'demonstrated racial hostility towards Mr Alwadaei by way of his comments', and while he was 'not motivated by racial hostility', he had demonstrated it.
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