A 56-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of using ‘threatening, abusive or insulting material intended to stir up hatred’ after a bonfire in Northern Ireland was topped with a replica of a mosque.
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The effigy has been widely condemned as ‘racist’, ‘vile’ and ‘deplorable’, and Amnesty has called on police to act on the ‘anti-Muslim’ display.
The Moygashel Bonfire Association has called it ‘political protest’ of ‘government ideology’.
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