{"id":270954,"date":"2016-10-04T03:01:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T03:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uks-racist-violence-on-the-rise-after-brexit-human-rights-body\/"},"modified":"2016-10-04T03:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T03:01:16","slug":"uks-racist-violence-on-the-rise-after-brexit-human-rights-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uks-racist-violence-on-the-rise-after-brexit-human-rights-body\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s racist violence on the rise after Brexit: Human rights body"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Racist violence is on the rise in the UK after the country voted to leave the European Union in June, according to a report by the Council of Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Strasbourg-based council, a human rights and democracy watchdog body separate from the EU, expressed its concern Tuesday over what it called a rise in &#8220;anti-foreigner sentiment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the report, the Council&#8217;s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) lamented &#8220;considerable intolerant political discourse in the UK, particularly focusing on immigration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerms such as \u2018invasions\u2019 and \u2018floods\u2019 were frequently used as well as the expression \u2018benefits tourism\u2019, despite a 2013 European Commission study finding no evidence that the main motivation of EU citizens to migrate was benefit-related,\u201d the report found.<\/p>\n<p>The report provided evidence that anti-Muslim hate speech targeting women has rocketed online, through social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/10\/04\/487535\/UK-hate-crime-Brexit-Muslims\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racist violence is on the rise in the UK after the country voted to leave the European Union in June, according to a report by the Council of Europe. The Strasbourg-based council, a human rights and democracy watchdog body separate from the EU, expressed its concern Tuesday over what it called a rise in &#8220;anti-foreigner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}