Human rights charity Freedom from Torture has refused to delete a video of home secretary Suella Braverman from social media after her department asked it to do so.
On Saturday, the charity uploaded to Twitter a video of holocaust survivor Joan Salter confronting Braverman at a public meeting over her use of words such as an “invasion” to describe immigrants arriving in the UK.
The video showed an edited version of Braverman’s response, which included her saying “I won’t apologise for the language I’ve used to demonstrate the scale of the problem”.
But the video did not show the beginning of Braverman’s response, in which she thanked Salter for her comments and said she “shared a huge amount of concern and sympathy and frustration about the challenge that we are facing” nor the applause she received.
However, the charity did post a link on Twitter to a video of Braverman’s full response to Salter’s comments.
The Home Office asked the charity to remove the edited video from social media on Saturday and published a statement explaining the reasons for its request.
“Since the footage misrepresents the interaction about a sensitive area of policy, we have asked the organisation who posted the video to take it down,” it said.
The charity has refused to remove the video from Twitter and instead reposted it yesterday with a tagline: “Almost 5 million people have watched this. The Home Office wanted it taken down.”
Today, it posted: “We won’t let them silence us. Hateful, dehumanising language should always be challenged.”
The charity told Civil Society News it has received no further correspondence from the Home Office.
Civil Society News has asked the Home Office whether it plans to take any further action over the video.
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