Lawyers for the Greens senator claim she was “offended, insulted, humiliated and intimidated” by the 2022 ‘Pakistan’ tweet
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Mehreen Faruqi has told the federal court she has suffered from insomnia, psychological distress and death threats after a tweet from One Nation’s Pauline Hanson, as the Greens senator pursues a claim under the Racial Discrimination Act.
Faruqi’s lawyers said in a court filing that she was “offended, insulted, humiliated and intimidated” by Hanson’s tweet in 2022, which told the Greens senator to “piss off back to Pakistan” after her comments on the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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