Labour MP reports 'death threat' after Ukraine misreporting

Zarah Sultana, a British Muslim Labour MP, said last night that she had received "a death threat… filled with racist abuse" linked to her misreported views on Ukraine.

A local BBC radio station apologised to her earlier in the week, she wrote in a Facebook post, for falsely stating she had "suggested Nato is responsible for the crisis in Ukraine".

Meanwhile, a Conservative in Coventry, where Sultana is an MP, called her an "agitator for Putin’s Russia," she wrote.

"I must make clear at this stage that these accusations have crossed the line from false to dangerous," she added.

"As an MP, it is impossible to forget that two of my colleagues have been assassinated in recent years," she continued. "As a young Muslim woman, I am acutely aware of risks to my safety. I have been open about the Islamophobic abuse and threats I regularly receive, with racist portrayals of me as a 'foreigner,' a 'traitor,' and an 'enemy' of Britain.

"I stand with the people of Ukraine."