Ethno-Nationalist Activist Jailed for 2 Years for Inciting ‘Racial Hatred’ With Stickers

Published on March 1, 2024

An ethno-nationalist activist found guilty of running an online library of downloadable stickers allegedly intended to “stir up racial hatred” has been jailed for two years. In January, a jury in Leeds convicted Samuel Melia, 34, who is the Yorkshire organiser for the ethno-nationalist group Patriotic Alternative, of distributing the downloadable stickers and encouraging racially aggravated criminal damage. On Friday, Leeds Crown Court Judge Tom Bayliss, KC jailed Melia for two years. Hundred Handers The stickers bore slogans such as “Labour loves Muslim rape gangs,” “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066,” “Mass immigration is white genocide,” and: “Second-generation? Third? Fourth? You have to go back,” warning non-white people “that they were being targeted.”...