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Legal
Surviving hostage relates ordeal in Islamic State captivity
(AP) Federico Motka’s abductors greeted him in English after he and his colleagues were kidnapped near a refugee camp on the Turkish border: “Welcome to Syria, you mutt.” For the Italian aid worker, it was the beginning of 14 months of brutality […]
Immigration
Former Daesh police brothers receive stiff jail terms Iraqi brothers arrived in Portugal among group of refugees from Greek camp
(Portugal Resident) Two Iraqi brothers who managed to trick authorities into believing they were bona-fide refugees when they were in fact members of terrorist group Daesh have been sentenced to 10 and 16 years [in] jail by a court in Lisbon. This […]
Clerics & Preachers
Ten years after the Paris attacks, is France better at preventing violent extremism?
(France 24) The deadly Paris attacks of November 13, 2015, led to a sea change in France’s counter-terrorism strategy. A decade later, there is a larger focus on preventing radicalisation and the mechanisms behind it are better understood. But today the threat […]