a woman evangelist Arrested and strip-searched by police after interacting with Muslims in a famous free speech zone in the United Kingdom, she reportedly received £500 from the police for her ordeal, according to a press release from the legal advocacy group. Won compensation of Rs 10,000. Christian concern,
Hatun Tash, A former muslim who converted to Christianity, preached the Bible and debated Muslims at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park for more than 10 years. According to a legal threat sent by Tash’s lawyer to the Metropolitan Police following her arrest, on June 26, 2022, Tash was setting up her camera at Speakers’ Corner when a man ran over and stole her copy of the Quran. Tash used the hole-filled Quran as a visual aid during his sermons.
Another man reportedly grabbed Tash’s tripod and prevented him from pursuing the thief. The lawyer’s letter says that after Tash’s friends called the emergency line, officers arrived and forcibly removed the preacher from the area as a growing crowd of men chased him and attempted to attack him, chanting “Allahu Akbar” shouted. The incident of 2022 was also captured on video And recently made public on YouTube.
The police had reportedly left the contents of the bag at the spot. Her lawyer argued that the police “wrongfully detained” her for 15 hours, strip-searched her, took her glasses and interrogated her in the middle of the night, thereby violating her human rights.
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Hatun Tash was given a £10,000 payment from the Met Police in a settlement after he was arrested and detained in June 2022. (Getty Images)
Police told the Christian preacher he was arrested for “criminal damage” caused to the Quran, even though it was his property, as well as “inciting racial hatred through threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or display of The intent was “to transmit any written material that is threatening, abusive or insulting,” because she was wearing Charlie Hebdo T-shirt According to the lawyer’s letter, which depicts Prophet Mohammed.
Tash’s lawyers argued that her rights to freedom of expression, thought, conscience and religion under Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) had been violated. He demanded compensation for the assault, wrongful arrest, unlawful imprisonment and harassment, and legal fees, as well as an apology and agreement that the police “will not continue to harass him.”
According to, an agreement was recently reached Christian Legal Centerand the Metropolitan Police.
A Met spokesperson said, “The Metropolitan Police has reached a settlement in relation to a proposed civil claim brought in relation to an arrest in 2022. We are not prepared to discuss further the details of the proposed claim or the settlement. ” fox news digital,
Tash told Fox News Digital that this is not the first time he has experienced similar incidents with law enforcement at Speakers Corner.
London, United Kingdom – 2020/10/24: Protesters gather at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park before marching in the city. (Getty Images)
The former Muslim turned evangelist runs a ministry called “Defend Christ, Criticize Islam.” She has over 690,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel where she argues in favor of Christianity and against the Islamic religion.
But his fearlessness in sharing his faith has made him a target of extremists. he has been stabbed target of a terrorist the plot, and been wrongly arrested several times On the free speech space over the years.
In his experience, police have been lenient towards those who have threatened them and he says this has emboldened more extremists to come after them. Like some others in Britain, she feels there is something emerging “Two-tier” justice system In Britain.
“Once the Muslims realized, okay, nothing is happening, (once) they violated the law, then they started coming as a mob. So, like a group of ten, of them 20 would just come and harass me, make sure I don’t use my freedom of speech, make sure I don’t talk,” she told Fox News Digital. “And whenever there was any tension , the police would have worried that they might remove me or arrest me. None of them were ever told no or asked to stop. The police approach was that it was easier to remove me so that Muslim people could continue what they were doing.”
Hatun Tash was stabbed at Speakers’ Corner on July 25, 2021. (Christian Concern/Youtube)
“It’s not just at Speaker’s Corner. We see the same thing in schools too,” he said of one teacher. who is reportedly still hiding After showing a cartoon of Mohammed to his class in 2021.
Tash recounted incidents where she sought help from police after people threatened her life, but she said her pleas for help were rejected by law enforcement. Once, two men followed her for hours, but the police did not help, she claims, and told her they were “not her bodyguards.”
“I had to leave the police station knowing that two men had been following me for two hours. Anything could happen. My phone has already been damaged. You think, okay, if they throw acid on me and Then if someone finds me in the morning will they recognize me?” He said.
At this point, Tash said it seems ,As if the police are more concerned about the feelings of Muslims than about my rights or my life.”
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A Muslim woman protests against cartoons of the Prophet already published several times by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Rome, Italy, on October 30, 2020. (Photo by Sirio Tessitore/Nurfoto via Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Despite these circumstances, he remains steadfast in his commitment to continue campaigning.
“As long as the Lord gives me breath, I plan to preach the gospel because I feel that even though there are so many negative things happening. For me, the solution is Jesus Christ. I saw how He changed me .They will change these individuals,” he said.
Tash says she works with imams in mosques and has seen about 20 imams who have left Islam to become Christians, as well as about 1,000 Muslims in England. She says that her ministry on her YouTube platform has discipled hundreds of people from Muslim majority countries.
“We are ready for debate and discussion,” he said. “It gives people the opportunity to make their own choices, whether they want to be Muslim or they don’t want to be Muslim, whether they want to be Christian or not. So I’m someone who’s been put in a position of privilege to see that.” “For how my God steps in and changes lives, in that sense, I’m very grateful to the Lord.”
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The Metropolitan Police did not comment on Tash’s claims about two-tier policing when asked about the agreement by Fox News Digital.
