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Teen activist drops hate speech charge against online trolls after receiving an apology
PN activist Eve Borg Bonello dropped criminal charges against two people who she reported for hate speech over offensive Facebook content
5 March 2021, 2:34pm
by Matthew Agius
Teenage PN activist Eve Borg Bonello has dropped criminal charges against two people she had reported to the police for hate speech over offensive Facebook posts.
Borg Bonello had faced a backlash on the internet after she captioned a photo of herself carrying a rubbish bag after taking part in a cleanup at Fort Chambray, Gozo with “Walking back from Kastilja.”
A 17-year-old activist has dropped charges against two people who threatened her online after they apologised in court.
Eve Borg Bonello, activist and president of the PN s youth wing, Team Start, said she faced threats of death and sexual violence after she spoke up at protest calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in 2019. She was 16 at the time.
Soon after the speech, during the political crisis sparked by developments in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder case, she said she was warned she could end up assassinated like the journalist.
Two of four people accused of hate speech appeared in court on Thursday in front of Magistrate Ian Farrugia.