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Day: January 8, 2020

Government & Politics

Manchester City Council set to adopt Martyn’s Law early

January 8, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) Clubs and venues in Manchester will be asked to adopt new anti-terror measures following a campaign by the mother of arena bomb victim Martyn Hett. The 29-year-old was one of 22 people killed in the suicide bombing in 2017. His mother […]

Academics & Education

Education chiefs set to reject plan to open separate Islamic schools for boys and girls (LINK ONLY)

January 8, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Judge weighs bid to stop Trump’s refugee resettlement limit

January 8, 2020 Michael Kunzelman  

(AP) A federal judge on Wednesday pressed a government lawyer to explain why President Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing state and local governments to reject refugees, questioning whether the change was politically motivated. U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte in Maryland […]

Legal

Lansing man pleads guilty to supporting Islamic State, faces up to 20 years in prison

January 8, 2020 Megan Banta  

(Lansing State Journal) A Lansing man has pleaded guilty to supporting the Islamic State group, according to court records. Muse Abdikadir Muse pleaded guilty to one felony charge of conspiring to providing material support to a designated terrorist organization during a Tuesday afternoon […]

Law Enforcement

Uber driver cleared of a Buckingham Palace sword attack boasted that he had deceived jurors before plotting a string of terror attacks (LINK ONLY)

January 8, 2020 EoI News  

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Law Enforcement

FBI asks Apple for phone data from Saudi shooting suspect

January 8, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AP) The FBI asked Apple this week to help extract data from iPhones that belonged to the Saudi aviation student who investigators say fatally shot three sailors at a U.S. naval base in Florida last month. Investigators have been trying to access […]

Clerics & Preachers

Prague’s former imam admits support of Islamic fighters

January 8, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(Prague Morning) Former Prague imam Samer Shehadeh admitted on Tuesday that he had helped his brother and sister-in-law travel to Syria to join a terrorist organization, Jabhat Fatah as-Sham (Conquest of Syria). Along with his brother Omar and his sister-in-law Fátima Hudková, […]

Legal

Relative of Belgium’s ‘executioner of Raqqa’ charged

January 8, 2020 Gabriela Galindo  

(Brussels Times) A relative of a Belgian jihadist said to be the “executioner of Raqqa” has been charged with financing terrorism after prosecutors found he had transferred funds suspected of ending up in the hands of one of the suspects of the […]

Children & Teens

Female genital mutilation survivors urge states to ban the practice

January 8, 2020 Jessa Reid Bolling  

(Alabama Political Reporter) Survivors of female genital mutilation are speaking out about the scars they carry from female genital mutilation to urge U.S. lawmakers to help put an end to the practice. 35 states have implemented legislation to criminalize female genital mutilation […]

Legal

Lisa Smith’s lawyers call for terrorism case to be dropped (LINK ONLY)

January 8, 2020 EoI News  

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Children & Teens

Germany sees 14 percent drop in asylum claims

January 8, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(Local) Last year, 111,094 people applied for asylum in Germany — a drop of 14.3 percent compared to the previous year. Government figures show 8,534 fewer applications for asylum were submitted in 2019 than in the previous year when 129,628 claims were […]

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