Rupert Nathan is waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether to press charges for his alleged derogatory online remarks • The U.K. has recently drawn headlines for clamping down on “hateful” online speech, with critics accusing it of a “two-tier” justice system.
Rupert Nathan, 63, was arrested in London in August upon arriving home for breakfast with his 11-year-old daughter. Two police officers approached him and said they wanted to question him about some things he had written online.
“I immediately knew what it was all about,” Nathan told JNS on Monday from his London home. Assuming it was “no big deal,” he asked the officers if they could schedule a later appointment in the afternoon.
“My daughter was with me and her mother had arranged to pick her up that afternoon,” he explained. But the officers insisted.