(AFP) Swiss prosecutors said on Tuesday they will seek a three-year sentence for Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, a former Oxford University professor charged with rape and sexual coercion. “It would be right to hand down a sentence of three years: 18 months […]
(AFP) The Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan went on trial in Geneva on Monday charged with “rape and sexual coercion,” allegations which the former Oxford University professor denied. Ramadan told the judges that he let himself be kissed by his accuser but […]
(Arab News) UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman is facing complaints that she has used “racist sentiments and discriminatory narratives” while in office. The allegations — in relation to her rhetoric regarding illegal migration to the UK and child sex offense allegations leveled […]
(BBC) An unconscious teenager was filmed being sexually assaulted as members of a grooming gang laughed, a court has heard. The youngster, referred to as Girl A, was 12 when the alleged abuse began in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. She and another young […]
(KLAS) A woman accused of stabbing her date in a Las Vegas-area hotel room in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian leader has agreed to plead guilty to two lesser charges and could avoid prison time, documents said. […]
(NY Post) A Florida neo-Nazi who converted to Islam pleaded guilty Monday to murdering his roommates for disrespecting his faith. Devon Arthurs, now 24, agreed to a term of 45 years in prison in exchange for admitting his guilt for the 2017 […]
(BBC) Eleven men have been charged in connection with investigations into the grooming and sexual abuse of teenage girls. The men from Greater Manchester are accused of abuse against three girls in Rochdale between 2000 and 2006. Nine are charged with rape […]
(Breitbart) A migrant attempting to cross the English Channel illegally on Saturday stabbed a French gendarme who was trying to block their group from setting sail. In the early hours of Saturday morning, as people smugglers began to try to release the […]
(Lexington Herald Leader) A New York man previously convicted of recruiting people for a terrorist organization has been federally charged with attempting to murder someone in the U.S. prison in McCreary County. Mufid Elfgeeh, of Rochester, New York, is charged with attempted […]
(Jewish Insider) Waseem Awawdeh, one of five defendants charged with targeting a Jewish man in a brazen antisemitic attack that drew an outcry from New York City’s Jewish community, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon, […]
(Sky News) The behaviour of people arriving in the UK on small boats is “at odds with British values,” the home secretary has claimed. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Suella Braverman said people making the dangerous Channel crossing — who include asylum […]
(AP) A van carrying 29 people from Syria pushed a patrol car off the road as officers tried to stop the vehicle near Germany’s border with Poland, police said Wednesday. No one was hurt. Off-duty officers noticed the van weaving through traffic […]
(BBC) Three people have been arrested in Birmingham after fireworks and eggs were thrown at police patrolling a street following a crackdown on illegal market stalls during Ramadan. West Midlands Police said officers were targeted on Wednesday night on Coventry Road, in […]
(Jewish News) Two men have been charged with behaviour “likely to stir up racial hatred” at a demonstration where they allegedly chanted references to the historic massacre of Jews at the battle of Khaybar. In a statement issued by the Metropolitan Police […]
(AFP) A French court has sentenced nine Afghans aged 21 to 39 to jail for illegally smuggling migrants across the Channel to Britain on dinghies in 2021. London and Paris are clamping down on illicit boat crossings into the United Kingdom on the […]
(Sky News) Suella Braverman has defended her use of language after claiming grooming gang members are “almost all British-Pakistani,” describing them as “unfashionable facts” in the face of a backlash. In a column for the Spectator, the home secretary said it was […]
(Canadian Press) Islamophobia and violence against Muslims is widespread and deeply entrenched in Canadian society, early findings from a Senate committee studying the issue indicate. Muslim women who wear hijabs — black Muslim women in particular — are the most vulnerable, and […]
(AP) A migrant woman was accidentally shot and killed by police in North Macedonia during a struggle that broke out Wednesday as an officer tried to arrest a suspected smuggler, authorities said. The fatal shooting occurred during an inspection of two vehicles […]
(BBC) Four people have been arrested after police and council staff were attacked in an operation to deal with illegal street market stalls during Ramadan. Disorder broke out resulting in missiles being thrown at 01:30 BST on Sunday in Small Heath, Birmingham. […]
(ITV) The imam of a Birmingham mosque has condemned violence against police over the weekend in the city. West Midlands Police officers were undertaking a joint operation with Birmingham City Council investigating illegal street trading when they faced backlash. A number of missiles […]
(Dutch News) The public prosecution department has asked Pakistan to cooperate in its efforts to try a 37-year-old man for offering a €21,000 reward for the murder of far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders five years ago. The department has asked the Pakistan […]
(BBC) Bottles have been thrown at police during an operation to crack down on illegal street market stalls during Ramadan, officers said. The incident happened at 01:30 BST on Sunday as a large crowd gathered in Small Heath, Birmingham. Police said the […]
(NZ Herald) A rapist who bought his young victim alcohol and drugs pinned her down by the neck, telling her he wasn’t finished when she tried to push him away during an assault. Abdullah Baura was sent to jail for raping a […]
(Reuters) Hungarian police found 17 migrants crammed into a closed space with no proper ventilation when they stopped a truck with Turkish license plates near the southern border. The migrants — 16 from Egypt and one from Libya — needed immediate medical […]
(AP) Five former Austrian officials went on trial in Vienna on Friday accused of granting asylum to a suspected Syrian war criminal in Austria at the request of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. The five are accused of abusing their positions by bringing […]
(AFP) Nine Afghans were on trial in France over allegations of attempting to smuggle migrants across the Channel to Britain in 2021. The case is the latest as Britain and France seek to clamp down on illegal boat crossings into the United […]
(BBC) Tory peer Baroness Warsi has warned that what she describes as Suella Braverman’s “racist rhetoric” is putting British Asian families at risk. The peer, the UK’s first South Asian cabinet minister, claimed the home secretary’s comments on small boats and grooming […]
(Sky News) Suella Braverman has been urged to withdraw “divisive” comments around child sexual exploitation (CSE) by dozens of medical bodies, businesses and Muslim community organisations, Sky News can reveal. A number of Muslim organisations across the country have written to Rishi […]
(AP) Thirty-five migrants were found in the trailer of a truck in southern Austria after the vehicle was damaged and an employee at a repair workshop heard noises from inside, police said Thursday. The driver was arrested. The Polish-registered vehicle drove the […]
(BBC) Victims of grooming gangs have been ignored because of political correctness, Rishi Sunak said as he set out plans for a police taskforce. Specialist officers supported by the National Crime Agency will be sent to help forces with their investigations, the […]
(BBC) A suspect accused of setting two men on fire outside mosques in Birmingham and Ealing, London, has appeared in court. Mohammed Abbkr, of Gillott Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, is alleged to have sprayed a substance on to the two Muslim victims in […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian man in the Italian city of Milan was stabbed over the weekend after being attacked by three other North Africans who noticed he was drinking a beer during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Tunisian, who was drinking […]
(Kathimerini) Authorities in the Evia town of Halkida are investigating the attempted gang rape of an 11-year-old resident of a migrant and refugee camp in Ritsona, northeast of the capital. According to state broadcaster ERT, the young Somali refugee told investigators that […]
(BBC) A suspect has appeared in court charged with two counts of attempted murder after attacks on men set alight outside mosques in Birmingham and London. Mohammed Abbkr, 28, from Edgbaston in Birmingham, is alleged to have sprayed a substance on to […]
(CBC) A few weeks after apologizing for comments in a 2019 opinion piece, Canada’s anti-Islamophobia representative began an official tour of communities with a stop in London, Ont., where a Muslim family was killed in June 2021 in what police describe as a […]
(Deutsche Welle) German police carried out a large-scale operation against suspected human traffickers in the capital Berlin and the eastern German city of Halle an der Saale on Wednesday morning. The gang of traffickers is accused of having smuggled mainly Turkish and Iraqi […]
(BBC) A man who murdered his 20-year-old niece and dumped her body on wasteland after she refused a forced marriage has been jailed for life. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, killed Somaiya Begum at her home before leaving her body wrapped up in […]
(JTA) After a century-old synagogue in Essen, Germany, was struck by two bullets last November, news reports connected it to the shooting at a synagogue in Halle three years earlier that had been perpetrated by a far-right German extremist. But authorities quickly […]
(BBC) A man has been found guilty of murdering his 20-year-old niece after she refused a forced marriage. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, killed Somaiya Begum before dumping her body on wasteland in Bradford in July 2022. Jurors heard the university student was […]
(AP) Three migrants and a suspected smuggler were seriously injured in North Macedonia when a car that police were pursuing overturned early Sunday, authorities said. Police said the car was carrying 11 migrants, five from Pakistan, three from India and three from […]
(BBC) A man on trial for murdering his niece had no motive, unlike her father who was “humiliated” after her failed forced marriage, a jury has heard. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, is accused of killing Somaiya Begum at her home in Bradford, […]
(Breitbart) Populist French Senator Stéphane Ravier faces a criminal trial after publishing a tweet in January of last year in which he stated that “immigration kills the youth of France.” Ravier, a former member of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) who joined […]
(BBC) A man on trial for murdering his niece asked police “what the sentence was for someone in his position,” a court has heard. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, is accused of killing Somaiya Begum at her home in Bradford, in June 2022. […]
(BBC) The body of a 20-year-old woman was so badly decomposed it was not possible to determine how she died, a murder trial has heard. Somaiya Begum was found wrapped in a rug on waste ground in Bradford in July last year. […]
(Breitbart) A 44-year-old Somali-Dane has been indicted by a Danish court for selling his 12-year-old daughter into sexual slavery in Kenya and Somalia and forcibly circumcising her. The trial against the 44-year-old, who was arrested in January of 2022, began this week […]
(BBC) A 20-year-old woman was murdered by her uncle and “dumped like rubbish” for refusing a forced marriage, a court was told. Somaiya Begum’s body was found wrapped in a rug on land near Fitzwilliam Street, Bradford, on 6 July. Prosecutors at […]
(BBC) Four trustees of a mosque have been jailed after attacking a worshipper who was unhappy they were using the site during lockdown. The victim, a 48-year-old man, was lured to the mosque in Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, on 4 June […]
(AP) Lawyers for a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 confirm he has schizophrenia, with one expert finding he was “approaching catatonia” before being moved to the state mental hospital for treatment. The defense information, contained […]
(AP) A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat. Police said the suspect was arrested after the migrants identified […]
(AP) Three defendants from an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on a ramshackle desert encampment rejected compromise offers from prosecutors to resolve kidnapping, terrorism and weapons charges in proceedings Friday at U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. The U.S. […]
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