(BBC) Shamima Begum has lost an initial bid to challenge the removal of her British citizenship at the Supreme Court. The 24-year-old had requested permission from the Court of Appeal to take her case to the UK’s highest court. The government stripped […]
(AFP) Prosecutors want the Moroccan man suspected of staging last year’s machete attack on two Spanish churches, killing a church official, to face 50 years behind bars, court documents showed Friday. The suspect, Yassine Kanjaa, 26, is charged with terrorist murder for […]
(Yle) The Court of Appeal in Turku has ruled that police officers were justified in their actions when they forcibly removed hijab head coverings from two female asylum seekers during an incident at a police station in the city of Hämeenlinna in […]
(NBC) President Joe Biden’s nomination of Adeel Mangi to be a powerful U.S. circuit court judge is in peril after two Senate Democrats announced they will oppose his nomination. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., have said they will […]
(AP) A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the judge who oversaw Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial to investigate the defense’s claims of juror bias and determine whether his death sentence should stand. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. […]
(CBC) The country’s top court has declined to hear the appeal of a private Calgary school that was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students who were denied prayer space on campus. The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling Thursday ends a […]
(Swiss Info) A Swiss court has fined four people over a banner used during a 2017 protest in Bern against the Turkish government that showed a gun pointed at an image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next to the words, “Kill […]
(AP) A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband enslaved when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of […]
(Hill) The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that a man’s challenge to his former placement on the No Fly List can move forward, finding the government failed to show his lawsuit is moot. Yonas Fikre, a U.S. citizen who previously resided in […]
(WBKO) A lawsuit filed in federal court in November 2023 against staff at the Warren County Regional Jail by a Muslim woman alleging deprivation of her religious rights has taken a new turn. The lawsuit alleges the woman was made to remove […]
(NCA NewsWire) A witness will be forced to give evidence against an accused Australian ISIS recruiter after she refused to do so following legal advice. The case against Neil Christopher Prakash, 32, returned before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday for a […]
(BBC) A mother and daughter have been jailed for funding terrorism in Syria. Stella Oyella, 53, and Vanessa Atim, 32, both of Newham, east London, sent hundreds of pounds to a relative who had joined the Islamic State (IS) group. They were […]
(AP) An Afghan refugee was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed faces life in prison for killing 41-year-old Aftab Hussein on July 26, 2022. […]
(AP) Prosecutors on Friday wrapped up their case against an Afghan refugee on charges that he gunned down a man in 2022 in what turned out to be the first of three ambush-style killings involving members of the Muslim community in New […]
(Canadian Press) A Calgary teenager arrested over alleged terrorism-related posts on TikTok and other social media sites is to face a two-day peace bond hearing in late October. The 16-year-old was the fourth Calgarian — and third teen — to be arrested […]
(Canadian Press) A man facing terrorism charges after an armed attack on Edmonton City Hall in January will have to wait a while longer before being able to seek bail. Bezhani Sarvar, 28, has been charged with counselling commission of a terrorism […]
(CNN) Multiple Democratic senators and their staff have privately warned the White House in recent days that there does not appear to be enough votes in the Senate to confirm Adeel Mangi, President Joe Biden’s Muslim-American judicial nominee, sources familiar with the […]
(ABC-Australia) A woman charged with willingly entering Syria to be with her ISIS fighter husband will be sentenced in June after indicating to a court that she will plead guilty. So-called “ISIS-bride” Mariam Raad was arrested in January 2023 and charged with […]
(Reuters) An Italian appeals court refused on Wednesday to send a suspected Palestinian militant to Israel, saying he risked “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” if he was extradited. The man, named by the court as Anan Kamal Afif Yaeesh, 36, was one […]
(BBC) A man who claims that the Manchester Arena bombing was fake has been denied a chance to challenge a ruling that his theory is “absurd and fantastical.” Richard Hall is being sued by bombing survivors Martin and Eve Hibbert for harassment, […]
(Times of Malta) One of a group of seven Syrian men arrested last April over suspicious jihadist activity on social media has been granted bail after spending 10 months in preventive custody. Ajil Al Muhsen, 21, was arraigned last year alongside six […]
(Anadolu) Amnesty International expressed “deep concern” Monday over the possible extradition to Israel of a Palestinian man who is a legal resident of Italy. Anan Ya’eesh, originally from Tulkarem in the West Bank, was arrested in January for allegedly being part of […]
(BBC) A 44-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to terror charges at the start of a trial for the murder of two people in a gun attack on two bars in Oslo. A three-minute police video was shown as the trial began, […]
(Radio France) A Paris administrative court on Monday upheld a decision to deport French-born Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen. Sent back to Morocco in 2023 after being accused of hate speech, Iquioussen says he will appeal the verdict. The court “rejects Mr. Iquioussen’s […]
(AP) Fear coursed through the Muslim community in New Mexico’s largest city over several days in the summer of 2022 as authorities scrambled to determine if race or religion might have been behind the ambush-style killings of three men from the community. […]
(Radio France) Tunisian imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi was recently expelled from France for alleged hate speech under an accelerated procedure made possible by the country’s tough new immigration laws. In a crackdown on Islamist fundamentalism, France has ejected a string of foreign imams […]
(Times of Malta) A man who was arrested by the police on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities has been charged in court with trying to help someone enter Malta illegally. Magistrate Noel Bartolo heard police inspector Zachary Zammit explain how Syrian […]
(WPLG) A man who was under investigation for alleged hate crimes in Sunny Isles Beach appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Sunday. Mohamed Al Saccal allegedly used a sharp object to frighten Orthodox Jews in the community, police said. Detectives were searching […]
(BBC) A man who posted images online in support of Hamas has pleaded guilty to a terrorism offence. Ozain Yousef, 23, of Mexborough Place, Leeds, was arrested on 24 November 2023 on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation. Police said he was […]
(Washington Examiner) A federal judicial nominee under fire for his prior role at an anti-Israel group was a key figure at a Muslim lawyers conference co-sponsored by a terrorism-linked group that the Biden White House disavowed over its Hamas support, documents show. […]
(CBC) A report examining the risk posed by a Calgary man who claimed to be a member of ISIS and appeared to be planning to kill gay people in the city was described by a judge as “troubling.” Zakarya Hussein, 20, pleaded […]
(Daily Wire) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned this week about a far-left [attorney] that President Joe Biden is trying to give a lifetime appointment to as a federal judge, saying that law enforcement officials across the country object to the […]
(AP) A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced four family members to life in prison for convictions stemming from a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that began in 2017 with the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia and was later […]
(Politico) The White House, along with law enforcement and labor groups, is pushing back against what they call “Islamophobic attacks” against a Biden administration nominee who would become the first Muslim American federal appellate judge if confirmed. The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced […]
(Catholic News Agency) A Spanish priest is facing up to three years in prison on “hate crime” charges for his heated words about Islam. Last month, Father Custodio Ballester and two other individuals received a summons from a provincial court in Spain […]
(Jewish News) A senior judge who faced a barrage of criticism after he “decided not to punish” three women who had displayed paraglider images at a pro-Palestinian protest in London is to be investigated over alleged bias, reports say. Tan Ikram, the deputy chief magistrate, who allowed […]
(CBC) The Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld the province’s controversial secularism law in a ruling on challenges to the law’s constitutionality released Thursday afternoon. The heavily anticipated judgment is 290 pages long and quashes a previous exception, made by Superior Court […]
(AFP) Four men went on trial on Thursday over a 2018 Christmas market attack in France’s eastern city of Strasbourg, with a key suspect insisting he did not know the plans of the radical Islamist who killed five people before being shot […]
(Toronto Star) Convicted Toronto terrorist Rehab Dughmosh has again refused to sign a peace bond that would have allowed her to go free. Instead, Dughmosh will spend another six months in jail. Prosecutors requested the unusual terrorism peace bond over fears that […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) will prosecute a religious leader and political leader in Pakistan who urged their followers to murder Geert Wilders — according to the OM, the two men from Pakistan made their comments verbally at meetings and […]
(AFP) French prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old school teacher on suspicion he translated religious chants into French for the Islamic State (IS) group, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office said this week. The man was indicted on February 16 over alleged “terrorist criminal […]
(AP) A court in Cyprus on Saturday ordered two men to remain in police custody for six days on suspicion of people smuggling. The men were identified as the drivers of two boats that brought 146 Syrian refugees and one Lebanese migrant […]
(AFP) A Tunisian imam expelled from France for alleged hate speech said on Friday he would take legal action in a bid to overturn the decision. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, from the town of Bagnols-sur-Ceze in the south of France, denounced his removal as […]
(Sky News) Shamima Begum has lost an appeal against the removal of her British citizenship. The east London schoolgirl, now 24, travelled to Syria in 2015 at the age of 15, before her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after […]
(BBC) A migrant who piloted a boat where four passengers drowned in the English Channel has been sentenced to nine years and six months. Ibrahima Bah was convicted of manslaughter on Monday over the deaths of the migrants who were on a […]
(Jewish News) A minister has suggested a judge accused of giving “lenient sentences” for terrorism offences should be investigated for appearing to support a pro-Palestine social media post. The Home Office’s Chris Philp told MPs he would expect the Judicial Conduct Investigations […]
(ITV) Two men from South Wales have been charged in connection with a suspected people smuggling operation through Europe. Dilshad Shamo, 41, from Castell Morgraig, and Ali Khdir, 42, from Pontygwindy Road, Caerphilly, have been charged with assisting unlawful immigration. They appeared […]
(BBC) A man who piloted a boat in the English Channel has been found guilty of the manslaughter of four migrants who drowned when it ran into difficulty. Ibrahima Bah, a Senegalese migrant, had offered to steer the dinghy in December 2022 […]
(NBC) The White House is slamming three Republican senators for leveling what it deems to be “cruel and Islamophobic attacks” at a Biden judicial nominee as part of a larger “smear effort” to discredit the man, who would be the first Muslim […]
(AP) A naturalized U.S. citizen who rapped about flying to “shoot New York up” after training with ISIS in his native Somalia has been charged with supporting a terrorist organization, federal prosecutors said Friday. Harafa Hussein Abdi, 41, of Minneapolis was arrested […]
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