(Lehigh Valley Live) A Saudi national accused of stealing a school bus in New Jersey and driving it to Pennsylvania before getting caught in the Poconos is not mentally competent to stand trial, a U.S. federal judge has ruled. Bader Alzahrani, 22, […]
(Brussels Times) The Antwerp Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced Nora Verhoeven, the repatriated widow of an Islamic State (ISIS) fighter, to 48 months in prison, 18 of them suspended. In 2015, the Brussels woman, then 21 years old, was sentenced in absentia […]
(Boston Herald) Paul Ventura was about to leave his Wakefield home Thursday morning when the FBI showed up looking for his 18-year-old son Mateo. Hours later, the dad opened up to reporters for more than 20 minutes outside the federal courthouse in […]
(BBC) A drill rapper planned a terrorist attack after watching a video from the Islamic State (IS) group showing the killing of prisoners, a court heard. Al-Arfat Hassan used his music to “glorify” IS killings and gained an online following under the […]
(MLive) Kent County sheriff’s leaders dispute a Muslim woman’s claim that jail staff violated her religious rights by forcing her to remove a hijab, a traditional Islamic head scarf. They also say video and audio evidence exists to back up their claim. […]
(NY Post) The nation’s largest American-Muslim advocacy group ripped into CUNY’s leadership as “dishonest” and “cowardly” for calling a law school graduate’s incendiary commencement address “hate speech” — claiming it was cleared by the school’s administrators. The New York chapter of the Council […]
(WLS) A convicted terrorist from Chicago is asking for immediate release from prison, even though he has already been cleared for extradition to India where authorities have charged him as a plotter in the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai. Tahawwur Rana claims […]
(AAP) More than two dozen Australian women and children trapped in dire conditions in Syria could die if they don’t get the help they so desperately [need], a humanitarian group says. The 17 children and nine women demanded to be [repatriated] in […]
(NCA NewsWire) The former government’s alleged failure to hand over a key report represents an “incredibly serious” breach of the law, a convicted terrorist’s lawyer has claimed. On Monday, lawyers acting for Abdul Nacer Benbrika and Australia’s attorney-general returned before the Supreme […]
(AP) Five police officers accused of cooperating with human traffickers to facilitate the entry of at least 100 migrants into Greece are being held in custody pending trial. The five officers had been testifying before an examining magistrate since Saturday morning at […]
(NCA NewsWire) The convicted leader of a terrorist cell in Australia will fight to have his citizenship returned, a court has heard. Abdul Nacer Benbrika returned before the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday as a trial began on what, if any, conditions […]
(BBC) A 19-year-old man has been given life with a minimum term of six years for planning to stab police and soldiers. Police believe Matthew King, who converted to extreme Islamism during lockdown, could have been hours away from carrying out an […]
(Swiss Info) The Office of the Attorney General of Geneva has confirmed its appeal against a local court’s decision to clear Tariq Ramadan last month. The renowned Islamic studies scholar had been accused of “rape and sexual coercion” by a Swiss woman. […]
(BBC) A victim of an alleged grooming gang has told a court how performing sex acts for a series of different men became “just like normal life.” The girl is one of two alleged victims of a group of eight men accused […]
(AFP) Belgium’s prosecutor’s office on Thursday said Salah Abdeslam, a Frenchman convicted of a 2015 jihadist massacre in Paris, should be found guilty as “co-perpetrator” of the 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels. “He knowingly helped the cell” that carried out the attacks […]
(NY Post) Two law school graduates who made headlines for their fiery anti-Israel commencement speeches belonged to a pro-Palestinian campus group that raised money for a Muslim charity that sued the New York Police Department. CUNY Law School grads Fatima Mousa Mohammed […]
(CBC) The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned a high-profile ruling ordering Canada to bring home four Canadian men detained in northeastern Syrian prisons for suspected ISIS members. In January, Federal Court Justice Henry Brown ruled the four men were entitled to […]
(NY Post) A hateful suspect accused of slugging a Jewish man wearing an Israeli military hoodie on a Brooklyn street struck a plea deal in the anti-Semitic attack, prosecutors said Tuesday. Suleiman Othman, 28, was accused of punching Blake Zavadsky twice and […]
(MLive) A woman is threatening a lawsuit after she says she was forced to remove her hijab, a traditional Islamic head scarf, for a booking photo at Kent County Correctional Facility. The 22-year-old Grand Rapids woman on Tuesday, May 30, filed notice […]
(BBC) A man has been jailed for nine months after extremist material was found on his mobile phone. Mohammed Adnan Saleem, 22, of Montrose Avenue, Luton, had saved several banned documents, including a bomb-making manual and a file on explosives. He was […]
(NY Post) Outraged critics are demanding CUNY’s billions of dollars in taxpayer funding be stripped away after a law grad delivered a “hate-filled and dangerous” commencement address ripping NYPD “fascists” and Israel. In her vitriolic May 12 graduation speech at the public […]
(National-UAE) A recent plea deal with the jewel thieves responsible for a spectacular museum heist in Germany will give gangsters the impression that “we can do what we want,” a leading expert on the country’s so-called “Arab clans” has said. Five members […]
(AFP) A Paris appeals court on Friday handed a 14-year jail term to a high-profile French jihadist convicted of terrorist offences linked to Syria. The court upheld the sentence against Kevin Guiavarch handed down by a lower court but was more lenient […]
(Canadian Press) A civil rights organization and a national Muslim advocacy group are the latest to launch a legal challenge of Quebec’s decree banning prayer rooms in public schools, the second one in recent weeks. The National Council of Canadian Muslims and […]
(BBC) A man has been jailed for at least nine and a half years for travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group. Shabazz Suleman, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, was 19 when he disappeared while on a family holiday to […]
(Atalayar) Monni Ahmed Merhba, alias “Ismail,” has been sentenced to two years in prison and five years of probation by the Audiencia Nacional for incitement to terrorism, although the prosecution was asking for four years in prison. Since August 2019, Ismail, of […]
(San Antonio Express-News) Federal prosecutors say San Antonio businessman Imad Eddin Wadi was willing to send $450,000 to arm insurgents in Syria, whom the U.S. deemed terrorists. But the Syrian native’s defense lawyers said that it was just puffery — that Wadi […]
(NCA NewsWire) Lawyers acting for a terrorist have bemoaned “Kafkaesque” issues with dealing with the Australian government as a trial date looms on his detention. Abdul Nacer Benbrika was jailed for 15 years in February 2009 after he was convicted on charges […]
(AFP) A Swiss court on Wednesday found Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan not guilty of rape and sexual coercion in a Geneva hotel 15 years ago, with his accuser immediately indicating she would appeal. The court also decided to compensate the former Oxford […]
(Middle East Eye) On 12 May, the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law live-streamed its commencement ceremony where Fatima Mohammed was speaking. The student was draped in the famous Palestinian keffiyeh. But just hours after the graduation ceremony, the […]
(Canadian Jewish News) Linda Frum says she consulted with security experts in the United States — and had them conduct a risk assessment — before she decided to fight a defamation lawsuit filed by an Arabic-language newspaper. The former senator tweeted that […]
(San Antonio Express-News) Federal prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against a San Antonio businessman accused of trying to fund terrorist groups in Syria. Imad Eddin Wadi is charged with three counts of conspiring to support opposition forces — which the U.S. has designated […]
(AP) A New Jersey software developer who prosecutors say once photographed landmarks in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., for possible terrorist attacks was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison by a federal judge who said it seemed he no longer […]
(BBC) A man has admitted preparing to murder a Christian preacher at Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner in a terrorist attack. Edward Little, 21, from Brighton, was carrying £5,000 with which he hoped to purchase a firearm, a passport and two phones when […]
(AAP) The continuing use of two risk assessment tools for convicted terrorists has been supported by the home affairs department after a report raised doubts about their efficacy. VERA-2R and Radar are used to determine the risk a terrorist poses, which is […]
(CNN) The Supreme Court handed Silicon Valley a massive victory on Thursday as it protected online platforms from two lawsuits that legal experts had warned could have upended the internet. The twin decisions preserve social media companies’ ability to avoid lawsuits stemming […]
(Times of Malta) Investigators found bomb-making instructions on the phones of five men who were among seven arrested last month over suspicious jihadist social media activity, a court heard on Thursday. They included pictures and diagrams explaining how a variety of bombs […]
(Brussels Times) The 2016 terror attacks trial was adjourned at the Brussels Assize Court after a suspect’s lawyer investigated potential issues of impartiality behind the testimony of psychiatric expert Samuel Leistedt. Nicolas Cohen, the lawyer for the terror suspect Bilal El Makhoukhi, […]
(San Antonio Express-News) A local businessman accused of conspiring to fund terrorist activities in Syria is on trial this week in San Antonio federal court. Prosecutors allege Imad Eddin Wadi, 64, was looking to funnel money from an export business to the al-Nusra Front, a […]
(Montreal Gazette) Six Muslim groups are asking a Quebec court to declare unconstitutional a new provincial edict that bans religious activity in public schools. In a lawsuit filed this week, the groups asked Quebec Superior Court to “declare constitutionally invalid, inapplicable, inoperative […]
(WLS) A former West Rogers Park travel agent could face the death penalty for his alleged role in what’s become known as the Mumbai massacre. Tahawwur Rana was cleared for extradition Wednesday and he’s also looking at execution if convicted of terrorism […]
(NY Post) West Side Highway terrorist Sayfullo Saipov received over eight life sentences Wednesday — after going on an unrepentant hour-long rant insinuating his victims’ tears pale in comparison to the blood and tears of the Muslim people. After victims spoke for […]
(AFP) Tariq Ramadan’s lawyers pleaded Wednesday for the controversial Islamic scholar to be acquitted, on the third and final day of his trial in Geneva on charges of rape and sexual coercion. Prosecutors are seeking a three-year sentence for the former Oxford […]
(NY Daily News) Multiple life terms in the federal supermax prison are possible for Sayfullo Saipov when he’s sentenced Wednesday on terrorism and murder charges for massacring eight and severely injuring 18 by plowing into them with a truck on the Hudson […]
(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) A total of 14 people are set to face trial in France over the beheading of a teacher by an Islamist extremist in 2020, a crime that shocked the country, legal documents obtained by AFP showed on Tuesday. The most serious […]
(NL Times) So far, the Netherlands has permanently revoked 20 people’s Dutch citizenship due to a conviction for a terrorist crime (6) or in the interest of national security (14), Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz reported in a letter to parliament. The state has […]
(Malta Today) The compilation of evidence against the seven men arrested in April on terrorism-related charges began before Magistrate Nadine Lia on Monday. Ajil Al Muhsen (21), Adnan Maashi (21), Yazan Abduklaziz (26), Ahmed Kadas (25), Khalil Al Mahmoud (21), Ahmed Ahmed […]
(Courthouse News) A former professional European soccer player convicted in Belgium 20 years ago of planning a suicide bombing attack on Americans in Europe appeared in U.S. federal court on Monday to begin his jury trial. Opening arguments began with the prosecution […]
(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 […]
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