The 42-year-old was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers online after the Southport murders last year.
Lucy Connolly’s husband Raymond (centre) with supporters outside the Court of Appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. (Picture: Yui Mok/PA)
In one of her first interviews since she was released, she said she would be meeting US officials but did not know what they would discuss.
US vice president JD Vance is among those who have expressed concerns about freedom of speech in Britain.
After the Southport attack, the report said Government officials “repeatedly intervened to chill speech”.
“You’re shutting people’s voices down. It’s ‘let’s give them a label. Let’s tell them they’re bad people and then they will be quiet’,” she said.
She was arrested on August 6, by which point she had deleted her social media account, but other messages which included further racist remarks were uncovered by officers who seized her phone.
Connolly was asked if she considered herself “Sir Keir Starmer’s political prisoner”.
“I think with Starmer he needs to practise what he preaches. He’s a human rights lawyer, so maybe he needs to look at what people’s human rights are; what freedom of speech means; and what the laws are in this country,” she told The Telegraph.
She called the police “dishonest” and said her words were “massively twisted and used against me” in a statement released by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
A press release from the CPS after her guilty plea on September 2 included a quote from Frank Ferguson, head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit.
An updated statement from the prosecuting body issued in October, once Mrs Connolly had been sentenced, said she told officers she did not like “illegal immigrants”.
A Northamptonshire Police spokesperson said the force was aware of comments made by Connolly after her release from prison.
Connolly said she will release the content of the police interview eventually so people can see what the police and the CPS said are “two very different things to what I said in my interview”.
Connolly was freed from prison after serving 40 per cent of her 31-month term, the automatic release point for her sentence.
With additional reporting from PA
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