### [2010-11-11](/feed/2010/11/11/index.md)

##### Conservative Party
# A British Conservative Party councillor is questioned by police and suspended by his party after posting a comment on Twitter calling for the Asian journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to be stoned to death. She had earlier spoken on radio concerning the issue of human rights in China. 




### Sources:

1. [BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-11736154)

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