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UN slams Hopkins’s sick remarks

NEWSPAPER columnist Katie Hopkins was yesterday blasted by the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights for likening migrants to cockroaches.

Jordanian Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein said the reality TV star had used language in her Sun column similar to that used by newspapers and radio stations in Rwanda before the 1994 genocide that led to hundreds of thousands of people being slaughtered.

He urged authorities in Britain to use the law to clamp down on “vicious verbal assault on migrants and asylum seekers in the tabloid press,” adding: “The nazi media described people their masters wanted to eliminate as rats and cockroaches. This type of language is clearly inflammatory and unacceptable, especially in a national newspaper.

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