Two wins in a row for Yvonne

NUJ MEMBER Yvonne Ridley won her second case for unfair dismissal in three months when a London tribunal ruled she had been wrongly dismissed and subjected to sexual discrimination and harassment by the Islam Channel, a satellite TV station where she was a presenter.

Her case was part-funded by the NUJ.

She had resigned in April last year after relations broke down between her and the channel’s chief executive, Mohammed Ali.

The tribunal said the way she was treated was “riddled with unfairness” and that she was subjected to “a wholesale approach of seeking to blame her.” It will announce the compensation she is entitled to on May 22.

Earlier this year Yvonne Ridley, a former Express reporter who converted to Islam after being kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, won a case against another TV channel, Al-Jazeera, which had sacked her from a job in its Qatar head office.

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