© Mark Thomas / Global Look PressTatchell has been slammed for targeting innocent children, with one social media user stating: “I'm surprised that you think it's acceptable to punish children for who their parents are.”
Human rights activist Peter Tatchell has been accused of taking aim at the children of Russian migrants in the UK, calling for them to be "expelled" from British schools due to the perceived crimes of the Russian state.
Tatchell, who has
orchestrated numerous political stunts in Russia to highlight LGBT issues, took to social media to attack President Vladimir Putin's governance. He also called for the implementation of the Magnitsky Clause into UK legislation and further visa bans.
In his tweet, Tatchell stated that under Putin "state assets stolen, protesters jailed, opposition politicians & critical journalists assassinated, war crimes in Syria." Despite an intense wave of anti-Russia sentiment in UK in recent years, which peaked following the poisoning of ex-Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, Tatchell's comments were met with ire from the many on the platform.
Tatchell has been slammed for targeting innocent children, with one social media user stating: "I'm surprised that you think it's acceptable to punish children for who their parents are." Others said the comments had exposed the human rights activist as a selective "liberal" and "racist."
Comment: If confirmed, this would be the fifth such bombing in the last few weeks and yet another change in tactics by the suspect(s). The Washington Post reports: Further reading: