"It was, quite literally, you deserve to be raped, you N-word bitch," Ella Mitchell tells me, standing in her kitchen, "and I can't wrap my head around it."

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Ella, 25, an administrative assistant in Leeds, is recounting her recent experience at an asylum hotel protest.

The abuse she says she's had from protesters, calling for the hotel to shut, is shocking.

"Threats of sexual violence, rape threats, racial slurs," she says, shaking her head.

"I think I will always find it a little bit galling to hear people say that they're doing this to keep people on their streets safe."

Image: Ella Mitchell, a counter-protester at the hotel housing asylum seekers in Leeds

For several weeks now, Ella's helped organise c

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