Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) condemned the United Kingdom’s arrest of comedian Graham Linehan for his social media posts about transgender people.

The Silicon Valley congressman called the arrest “an offense to anyone who supports free speech,” in a post on the social platform X.

“I guess UK has not learned from the time prosecutors read passages of The Picture of Dorian Gray to convict Oscar Wilde,” Khanna continued.

Linehan, a co-creator of British TV shows “Father Ted” and “The IT Crowd,” said on Tuesday that when he stepped off the plane at Heathrow Airport on Monday, he was greeted by five armed........

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