A 28-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly posting a racist tweet using the hashtag "#killallwhitemen".

Bahar Mustafa - a student diversity officer at Goldsmiths, University of London - initially caused anger for asking white men not to attend a students' union meeting intended for ethnic minority and "non-binary" women.

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She faces two charges in relation to the tweets.



The first charge is sending a communication conveying a threatening message between November 10, 2014 and May 31, 2015. The second is for sending a grossly offensive message via a public communication network.

Mustafa said her initial request for white men to stay away from a union meeting was due to her receiving a number or rape and death threats and had nothing to do with race or sex.

A Met police spokesman said in a statement: "A woman interviewed under caution regarding a complaint of racially motivated malicious communication made on a social media network has been summonsed to court."

The 28-year-old is set to appear at Bromley magistrates court on November 5.

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