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Scottish Sun
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Star Wars health and safety boss with MBE for ‘cultural awareness' sues after sacking for calling colleague ‘white man'
She also worked on Disney's remake of Snow White REVENGE OF THE SACKED Star Wars health and safety boss with MBE for 'cultural awareness' sues after sacking for calling colleague 'white man' A STAR Wars health and safety boss with an MBE for cultural awareness is suing after being sacked for calling a colleague "white man". Sadi Khan, who worked on The Acolyte, was the first woman of colour employed as a head of health and safety on a Walt Disney series. Advertisement 2 Sadi Khan worked on The Acolyte Disney series Credit: Disney 2 Star Wars spinoff series The Acolyte Credit: Disney The single mum from Nottingham is suing the production company for unfair dismissal after being sacked for referring to a colleague as a 'white man'. She worked for Blue Stockings, which is owned by the Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm. She is suing Blue Stockings for unfair dismissal, sex and race discrimination, harassment and victimisation after she was dismissed for gross misconduct in November 2022. Ms Khan also worked as the health and safety co-ordinator on Disney's controversial remake of Snow White. Advertisement The mum, who is of Pakistani heritage, claims she was sacked after blowing the whistle on unsafe working conditions. She was awarded an MBE in 2018 for cultural and religious awareness and training and services to the vulnerable. Ms Khan told an employment tribunal in Reading: 'If it was Tom Cruise saying they have to take health and safety seriously, they'd have listened to him, but they took no notice of me," The Times reported. She claimed there was a 'campaign' against her. Advertisement The tribunal heard Ms Khan was sacked for referring to a bloke who was hired in a more senior role as a 'white man' and for 'making inappropriate comments' to her colleagues. But she insisted she said it in a "factual" way, and didn't mean for it to be derogatory. Blue Stockings denies the allegations, and the case continues.
The Irish Sun
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Star Wars health and safety boss with MBE for ‘cultural awareness' sues after sacking for calling colleague ‘white man'
A STAR Wars health and safety boss with an MBE for cultural awareness is suing after being sacked for calling a colleague "white man". Sadi Khan, who worked on The Acolyte, was the first woman of colour employed as a head of health and safety on a Walt Disney series. 2 Sadi Khan worked on The Acolyte Disney series Credit: Disney 2 Star Wars spinoff series The Acolyte Credit: Disney The single mum from Nottingham is suing the production company for unfair dismissal after being sacked for referring to a colleague as a 'white man'. She worked for Blue Stockings, which is owned by the Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm. She is suing Blue Stockings for unfair dismissal, sex and race discrimination, harassment and victimisation after she was dismissed for gross misconduct in November 2022. Ms Khan also worked as the health and safety co-ordinator on Disney's controversial remake of Snow White. The mum, who is of Pakistani heritage, claims she was sacked after blowing the whistle on unsafe working conditions. She was awarded an MBE in 2018 for cultural and religious awareness and training and services to the vulnerable. Ms Khan told an employment tribunal in Reading: 'If it was Tom Cruise saying they have to take health and safety seriously, they'd have listened to him, but they took no notice of me," She claimed there was a 'campaign' against her. Most read in The Sun The tribunal heard Ms Khan was sacked for referring to a bloke who was hired in a more senior role as a 'white man' and for 'making inappropriate comments' to her colleagues. But she insisted she said it in a "factual" way, and didn't mean for it to be derogatory. Blue Stockings denies the allegations, and the case continues.
Sunday World
14-06-2025
- Business
- Sunday World
Scam queen who laundered crime cash with husband loses another battle against CAB
Khan and her husband Khurram played a major role in a multi-million euro international fraud and used companies in Ireland to launder the criminal cash. SCAM queen Agne Khan has lost an appeal against a court ruling in a Criminal Assets Bureau case against her. Khan and her husband Khurram played a major role in a multi-million euro international fraud and used companies in Ireland to launder the criminal cash. A property in Tipperary owned by Nida Investments has already been ruled the proceeds of crime which Ms Khan had attempted to contest. However, she was told that she could not represent the registered company in court which can only be done by a solicitor, a decision which she appealed against. In judgement published this week the Court of Appeal upheld the ruling by judge Alex Owens which came after two different solicitors acting for the firm asked to come off record. One said the relationship of 'trust and confidence between myself and my clients has broken down irreparably.' Ms Khan did not appear in court when the appeal case was heard and was not in court when the High Court granted the orders sought by Cab in relation to Nida Investments earlier this year. The Sunday World previously reported how Agne Khan tried to claim investors in her firm who turned out to be 'dodgy' had put funds into her Irish car companies. Her firms Nida Investments and Autology Ltd were branded as being 'steeped in fraud' in the High Court where the Cab sought to take over the property at Ballywilliam. The garage forecourt in Co Tipperary was bought by one company and rent from it has been paid to a bank account now frozen by Cab. Khan and her husband Khurram Khan have been described as being at the heart of a €3.5 million international cybercrime fraud. Counsel for Cab said that in sworn evidence filed by Ms Khan she had claimed to be innocent and investors who channelled funds through her mother were scammers. Even though Ms Khan and her husband pleaded guilty to fraud offences in the UK and got prison sentences they continued to associate with these people, it was heard. Her affidavit didn't explain the source of the money used to buy the Tipperary property which is now used by a legitimate business. Judge Owens said the property bought for €66,000 was 'no doubt' the proceeds of crime and appointed a receiver to take over the property and the bank account into which rent had been paid. Another motor firm controlled by the Khans had been based at the same Co Tipperary premises but stop trading 2018 after a Revenue investigation. The Khans 'walked off' from that company, taking with them any cash in the firm and leaving behind an unpaid tax bill €623,000.
Sky News AU
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Victims of antisemitism speak out on discrimination as 'October 8 film' delves into growth of anti-Israel sentiment in US
Two prominent campaigners against antisemitism have spoken out on their fight against discrimination as they reflected on the release of the film October 8. The film was directed by Wendy Sachs and co-produced with Will and Grace star Debra Messing - who comes from a Jewish family. It delves into incidents of antisemitism on college campuses and social media in the United States which erupted in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The documentary, which was released on March 14, 2025, has received mainly positive reviews and now Talia Khan and Tessa Veksler are continuing the fight to educate others and ward off antisemitism and hate speech. Ms Khan, a graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), delivered a testimony to Congress in December 2023 to bring to their attention the "extremely toxic atmosphere" that had developed at the college and to advocate for the safety of Jewish students. On Wednesday, she and Ms Veksler, fellow campaigner for Jewish people, joined Sky News' Chris Kenny to discuss the film and the alarming levels of discrimination they had been subjected to. "I think that one of the biggest benefits of this film and the way that the story was told is that it shows very clearly that the things that were happening on campus that happened to Tessa, that happened me, and all the other Jewish students on campus... it wasn't about politics or policy, it wasn't about whether or not you agree with (Israeli PM Benjamin) Netanyahu or not," Ms Khan told Kenny. "It was really just bullying and hatred and support for terror." She also said she would make an effort to speak with people who took part in pro-Palestine encampments on campus, but that she would be turned away due to them having a "non-conversation policy with Zionists". "They're not even allowed to talk to us. Many of them wouldn't look us in the eye. So it was very clear that it wasn't about having an environment of intellectual curiosity or rigorous debate about the policy issues. It was just about hatred and promotion of terror," she said. Ms Veksler, who survived a recall vote to remain head of the student body at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said one of the biggest challenges had been people who she thought she was close to turning on her. "I think that was a really painful thing that people who you thought were your allies were so quick to change their minds... and there are these striking similarities between what we went through on our campuses and what's happening here in Australia and on university campuses, and so it's pretty universal from what I'm seeing," she said. When asked about how the world could overturn hatred and ignorance, Ms Veksler said it had to start with people agreeing "what this is about". "First and foremost, this is a fight for Western values and for humanity against hatred of all kinds. The thing that people really don't understand is that it starts with the Jews, it never ends with us," she said. "So if we care about the free world and we can all agree on that, it will help us unite against this form of hatred." Ms Khan agreed, describing Jews as "the canary in the coal mine". "This is a battle against Western values, against democracy, against women's rights, et cetera," she said. "We need to make that not just Jews are standing up and speaking out against us, that we have allies who are also standing up and speaking up against this kind of hate and this kind, you know, revelling in terror."
Sky News AU
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Pro-Palestine university encampments were just about ‘hatred' of Jews
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Talia Khan slams the pro-Palestine protests on university campuses for their lack of 'goodwill'. The October 8 documentary aims to raise awareness of the growing antisemitism around the world. Ms Khan told Sky News host Chris Kenny that the university encampments were not about having a 'debate' on policy issues. 'It was just about hatred and promotion of terror.'
