Award-winning journalist Martin Chulov is fired as The Guardian's Middle East correspondent after allegedly sexually harassing and beating a woman.

According to information from the Mail on Sunday, an award-winning journalist from the Guardian is under police investigation on suspicion of sexually harassing and beating a woman.

A separate police investigation was also launched against Martin Chulov for beating and subjecting another woman to coercive measures, but this investigation was closed without any further action being taken against him.

The 52-year-old was sacked as the Guardian's Middle East correspondent after an internal investigation confirmed complaints against him. The department was told he had appealed, but the newspaper closed the investigation in July and stood by its decision.

He has not reported for the newspaper since at least April last year, shortly after being detained by Scotland Yard over the alleged sexual and physical assault of the First Lady.

The Guardian launched an internal investigation after two women independently complained to the newspaper and then went to the police to report the alleged incidents.

The women also claimed that he made racist remarks against Arabs and Turks and insulted them.

His case came nearly two years after another veteran at the newspaper, Nick Cohen, left the company after several female colleagues made sexual harassment complaints against him over a 17-year period.

The Guardian supported the global #MeToo campaign, which emerged in America following revelations about the sexual harassment of women by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Ironically, it is believed that it was the #MeToo campaign that gave the two alleged victims the courage to complain against Mr Chulov. The reporter of 29 years has been writing about the Middle East for The Guardian since 2008 and is normally based in Beirut, where he lives with his Lebanese wife and daughter.

The first woman complained to police that she was physically attacked by him in her flat in Chelsea, west London, and sexually assaulted later that same night in December 2019. According to sources, she also claimed she was attacked by him in a hotel in Turkey in August 2018.

The second woman reported him to the police because he had physically assaulted her in her apartment, also in Chelsea.

The MoS is aware that The Guardian confirmed two allegations of assault, but stated that the allegation of sexual assault could not be proven.

Last night, police said one woman's complaints had been investigated and closed, but that an investigation into the other alleged victim's claims was ongoing.

In a statement, Mr Chulov said: “The allegations against me are categorically denied.”

“Many of these turned out to be untrue after independent investigations.”