(AFP) Two men who received the longest prison terms for allegedly aiding in the 2016 terror attack in the French resort city of Nice have appealed their conviction, prosecutors told AFP on Monday. Their appeal came weeks after French judges ordered prison […]
(Brussels Times) Suspect Mohamed Abrini on Friday deemed the Brussels bombing trial a farce and threatened to stop cooperating if the conditions of his transfer from prison to the courthouse do not change. “I don’t even know what to say anymore. All […]
(AP) Spanish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into the deaths of more than 20 migrants last June at the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave city of Melilla, saying in a statement Friday they found no evidence of criminal misconduct by […]
(Deutsche Welle) The man who carried out a knife attack on a German high-speed train was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday. A court in Munich found that Abdalrahman A. was culpable despite claims he was mentally ill at the time. […]
(Local) Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says the new government is yet to finalise its position on the issue of Danish children who remain at prison camps in Syria. Rasmussen, who spoke in favour of repatriating the children before the election, said […]
(Brussels Times) Seven new civil parties came forward on Wednesday, following the resumption of the Brussels bombing trial, bringing the total to 1,070. On Tuesday, 111 new civil parties had registered, joining 957 others who had previously come forward. The Brussels Assise […]
(NL Times) Two Syrian brothers were arrested in a small Limburg town on accusations they were preparing to commit a terrorist act. The men were taken into custody by the DSI tactical unit that specializes in the intervention of terrorist threats, or […]
(Brussels Times) Defendant Mohamed Abrini issued a complaint via his attorney Laura Pinilla, when the Brussels bombing trial resumed on Thursday afternoon. Abrini was unable to take notes on the testimony given during the morning session, Pinilla reported, because, for security reasons, […]
(AP) Police in North Macedonia said Wednesday they had arrested nine people, including a police officer, on suspicion of smuggling dozens of migrants through the country. The nine, who are all Macedonian nationals and include two minors, were arrested during raids on […]
(AFP) A Danish court on Tuesday sentenced an Islamic State (IS) sympathiser to 16 years in prison for plotting a bomb attack in the Scandinavian country. It is the longest sentence imposed to date for crimes of terrorism in Denmark, life in […]
(NL Times) The former national coordinator for security and counterterrorism (NCTV), Dick Schoof, was not forthcoming about concerns his staff had about a covert program to gather intelligence about mosques operating in the Netherlands, according to new research by NRC. The office […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss justice authorities say they have indicted a Turkish national for supporting terrorist groups and depicting prohibited violence. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) accuses the 26-year-old defendant of encouraging a teenager in his support for the ideology of […]
(AFP) Cyprus on Monday transferred 48 asylum seekers to Germany under a voluntary pilot scheme that will eventually see 500 relocated to help cope with a surge in migrants, authorities said. The Cypriot interior ministry said the 48 applicants for international protection […]
(ITV) Public venues must ensure stronger protection against terrorism under a new law introduced following the campaign of the mother of a Manchester Arena bombing victim. Martyn Hett, 29, was one of 22 people killed during the attack at the end of […]
(BBC) A man has been charged after four people died in the Channel when a migrant boat got into trouble. Thirty-nine people were rescued when a dinghy ran into difficulties off the Kent coast on Wednesday, but four died. Ibrahima Bah, 19, […]
(NL Times) Cities in the Netherlands are again taking measures on Saturday to prevent unrest after Morocco’s World Cup match against Croatia. The two countries are playing for the third and fourth spots. At previous Morocco matches, riots broke out in several […]
(AP) Four Turkish nationals have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants after a boat with nearly 100 people on board was found in trouble off an island near Athens, Greek authorities said Friday. The coast guard said that the four had […]
(AAP) Jailed after planning a Syria trip to fight for ISIS and thrown back behind bars for owning a prohibited firearm, a Sydney man will now be watched carefully after release. On Friday, the NSW Supreme Court made an extended supervision order […]
(Swiss Info) Three Swiss terror suspects who went missing in north-eastern Syria in January are being held in detention camps run by Kurdish authorities, the Swiss foreign ministry has confirmed. The three men, reportedly from Geneva, Lausanne and Orbe, went missing following a rescue […]
(BBC) Plans to ban migrants from claiming asylum in the UK will save lives, the home secretary has insisted. Suella Braverman said a new law preventing illegal entrants from applying would deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats. She added […]
(NL Times) On Tuesday, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded four and three years in prison against two of the nine men arrested in Eindhoven on suspicion of terrorism in September last year. The OM requested acquittal for the other seven suspects […]
(Hungary Today) In 2015, Salah Abdeslam, one of the perpetrators of the 2015 Paris attacks and its sole survivor, brought several migrants from Hungary to Western Europe, where they were all involved in terrorist attacks. As revealed in a recent article in […]
(BBC) Recent disorder in Leicester showed why “robust strategies that support integration” were needed, the city’s bishop has said in the House of Lords. Making his maiden speech on Friday during a debate on immigration, Bishop Martyn Snow said more support was […]
(Local) Sweden’s Supreme Court has reversed the schoolgirl headscarf ban passed by the Moderate-led municipality of Staffanstorp in Skåne back in 2019, saying it breaks freedom of expression laws. Staffanstorp, where the Moderates rule in coalition with the far-right Sweden Democrats, wanted […]
(AFP) A Moroccan man sentenced to life in prison for an attempted terror attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 that was foiled by passengers had his appeal rejected Thursday by a French court. Their heroics were later immortalised in the Clint […]
(Euronews) French police say they have arrested six people on suspicion of smuggling Middle Eastern migrants across the English Channel. The criminal gang had allegedly organised the transportation of Afghan and Pakistani migrants to the United Kingdom. According to police sources, the […]
(Brussels Times) Bilal El Makhoukhi, a defendant in the Brussels bombing trial, knew where a cache of weapons of the terrorist cell was located, according to State Security wiretaps in June 2016, transmitted to the federal prosecutor. This information is included in […]
(BBC) An alleged firebomb attack at the office of an Iranian resistance group in north-west London is being investigated by police. The London Fire Brigade was called to the blaze in Cricklewood on Monday. The office is occupied by the People’s Mojahedin […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Dennis Wiersma has been accused of breaking the constitutional ban on discrimination with his plan to target Islamic weekend schools suspected of fostering radicalism. An organisation representing Islamic institutions in the Rotterdam area, SPIOR, has filed a police […]
(Middle East Eye) US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Senator Elizabeth Warren are leading an effort to urge American banking regulators to reassess policies that discriminate against Muslim Americans and immigrant communities. The two lawmakers, along with Senator Ed Markey and Congresswomen Rashida […]
(Brussels Times) The Conseil du Contentieux des Étrangers (CCE — Foreigners Litigation Council) has rejected an appeal by Imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan preacher fighting to avoid deportation, according to a ruling published on Monday. The imam wanted his order to leave […]
(AP) Bulgaria rejected accusations that its border guards shot a Syrian refugee in October after a video released Monday showed a man being fired at on [the] European country’s border with Turkey. The footage of an asylum-seeker being hit with live ammunition […]
(Canadian Press) A Federal Court is slated to begin two days of hearings today into the Liberal government’s refusal to repatriate 19 Canadian women and children who are being held in northeastern Syria. Family members for the six women and 13 children […]
(AFP) A defendant on trial over the 2016 bombings in Brussels on Monday charged in court that the suspects were being “humiliated” by draconian security measures and threatened to remain silent unless conditions improved. Ten men are on trial accused of directing […]
(Swiss Info) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan will have to stand trial in the Swiss city of Geneva next year accused of rape and sexual coercion. Justice officials and lawyers of the parties confirmed that the 60-year-old will be tried following four years […]
(News.com.au) A Melbourne man accused of being an Islamic State terrorist has been extradited to Victoria. Neil Prakash, 31, was also charged with six offences including engaging in hostile activity in a foreign state, being a member of a terrorist organisation and […]
(Arab News) A former British Daesh bride detained in a prison camp in northeast Syria will die without medical intervention, with the UK government’s inaction amounting to “barbarism,” a neurologist told the Times. The woman in her 40s, who is known by […]
(BBC) An annual campaign challenging Islamophobia is not being taken seriously enough by wider society, a Bradford Muslim author has said. While Islamophobia Awareness Month had just marked its 10th year, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan said it attracted limited interest beyond Muslim communities. Tackling […]
(Brussels Times) As part of Belgium’s strategy against extremism and terrorism, priority monitoring is being carried out on 624 jihadists, 64 right-wing extremists and 14 left-wing extremists, said Belgium’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) in a statement on Friday. According to […]
(Arab News) The husband of Daesh bride Shamima Begum has insisted his marriage to the British schoolgirl was a happy one, the Daily Mail reported. Yago Riedijk, who was 23 when he married Begum, then 15, said the couple enjoyed a good […]
(AP) An Austrian court has convicted three Afghan men for the rape and death of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found dumped next to a tree in Vienna last year in a case that shocked the Alpine nation. The Austria Press […]
(AP) Ethnically divided Cyprus ranks first among European Union member nations in the number of migrants it repatriates relative to its population of just over a million people, the country’s interior minister said Thursday. Nearly 7,000 migrants were sent back to their […]
(AFP) UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his counterpart in Tirana Edi Rama on Thursday agreed to do more to stem the flow of Albanians making small-boat crossings of the Channel. Albanians are now the largest single group among record numbers of migrants […]
(AP) The European Union’s asylum agency said Wednesday that the number of people seeking asylum in Europe has hit a six-year high, with Syrian nationals once again seeking international protection more than people from any other country. The agency said that around […]
(Middle East Eye) The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has said that the growth of the UK’s Muslim population is a “strategic national asset” for the country but raised concerns about the levels of poverty the community continues to live in. Results […]
(Brussels Times) The trial of ten of the alleged perpetrators of the 22 March 2016 Brussels terror attacks — in which 32 civilians were killed and more than 300 injured — is set to begin this Monday. Here is an overview of […]
(Radio France) A restaurant owner in France’s south-west Basque region has been fined 600 euros for refusing entry to [a] woman wearing an Islamic headscarf, and her son. A court in the city of Bayonne found the 64-year-old restaurant owner, also a […]
(AP) A 22-year-old Seattle man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after being arrested while trying to board a flight to join the Islamic State group last year. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams was arrested at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as he […]
(Arab News) The Muslim population of the UK has risen 44 percent in a decade, according to the latest census figures published by the Office for National Statistics. Of the country’s total population, 6.5 percent — 3.9 million people — are adherents […]
(Sky News) A group of more than 50 MPs has written to PM Rishi Sunak, urging him to introduce emergency legislation which will cut small boat crossings of the Channel. The group, which includes former cabinet ministers, called for the rapid implementation […]
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