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Al Jazeera Staff

MYSTERIOUS: What are non crime hate incidents which have become so hated in the uk - You Need To See This

Police stand in front of the Bank of England in London on October 28, 2024. Critics of the reporting of non-crime hate incidents in England and Wales say they are are major waste of police time [Mina Kim/Reuters]

Last month, a British journalist revealed that she had been visited by police at her Essex home over a post she wrote relating to Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, on X a year earlier.

On November 12, Allison Pearson, a columnist for the right-wing newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, claimed she was being investigated for a “non-crime hate incident” (NCHI). The police later disputed this, saying she was being investigated for a potential criminal offence of stirring up racial hatred, rather than an NCHI, but in any case, the probe was dropped a few days later.

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