JK Rowling has threatened to sue Amnesty International after her women’s charity was “blacklisted”.
Beira’s Place – a support centre for female sexual assault victims founded by the Harry Potter author – was mentioned in a list of 117 organisations that Amnesty accused of setting back human rights for women and gay people in the UK.
The human rights charity apologised for the report and said it had been withdrawn while an internal review took place.
But lawyers acting for Beira’s Place have accused Amnesty of defaming Beira’s Place by classing it as an “anti-rights” group “targeting the rights of women”.
Well, yes. It’s the way they – gender-huggers in general, not just Amnesty – class all of us. We’re evil hateful bigoted malicious monsters, not the women defending our rights we keep saying we are, not same-sex attracted people defending their rights, not men in solidarity with us. Just monsters all the way down.
Since the publication of the “deeply damaging” briefing earlier this month, the Edinburgh-based centre had received “threatening and abusive correspondence” and a 600 per cent spike in website visits from people not intending to use its services, its lawyers claimed.
The centre had had to take extra administrative measures to provide staffing support to address the disruption, they added.
I didn’t know that. How horrible. It’s a rape crisis centre, not a den of monsters.
I hope she does sue them. I hope Amnesty is forced to donate a ton of cash to Beira’s Place.