{"id":45422,"date":"2022-06-14T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2022\/jun\/14\/bbc-to-pay-30000-to-bangladeshi-labour-councillor-for-identity-mix-up"},"modified":"2022-06-14T18:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:30:42","slug":"bbc-to-pay-30000-to-bangladeshi-labour-councillor-for-identity-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45422","title":{"rendered":"BBC to pay \u00a330,000 to Bangladeshi Labour councillor for identity mix-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liza Begum said confusion with Apsana Begum who was acquitted of fraud charges \u2018reflects notion all people of colour look the same\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/bbc\">BBC<\/a> has agreed to pay \u00a330,000 in damages to a British Bangladeshi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/labour\">Labour<\/a> councillor after it mixed her up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/aug\/23\/it-felt-like-political-persecution-labour-mp-apsana-begum-trauma-criminal-trial\">Apsana Begum<\/a> in a news item about the MP facing housing fraud charges.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of Liza Begum at an event to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/nov\/25\/labour-to-launch-race-and-faith-manifesto\">Labour\u2019s 2019 race and faith manifesto<\/a> were broadcast on BBC London News during an exchange on 29 October 2020, in which the BBC London political correspondent said: \u201cThis is Apsana Begum \u2026 she faces three charges of dishonesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2022\/jun\/14\/bbc-to-pay-30000-to-bangladeshi-labour-councillor-for-identity-mix-up\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liza Begum said confusion with Apsana Begum who was acquitted of fraud charges \u2018reflects notion all people of colour look the same\u2019The BBC has agreed to pay \u00a330,000 in damages to a British Bangladeshi Labour councillor after it mixed her up with Apsana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1762,902,86,215,238,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-bbc","category-labour","category-law","category-london","category-media","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45423,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45422\/revisions\/45423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}