Clothing

Court dismisses charges against police, guards over alleged forced removal of hijabs In its ruling, the Kanta-Häme District Court said it did not find the evidence given by the female asylum seekers to be reliable.

(Yle) The Kanta-Häme District Court has cleared a total of seven defendants — comprising police officers and security guards — of all charges in relation to an incident in which female asylum seekers claimed they were forced to remove their head coverings. […]

Law Enforcement

Mustafa Dirani’s ‘extreme beliefs’ laid bare in court Lawyers have argued a man was not privy to a terrorist conspiracy unfolding in Sydney’s west despite sharing 'extreme' Islamic material.

(NCA NewsWire) Lawyers for Mustafa Dirani have asked a jury to put his “extreme beliefs” aside in judging if he was part of a terrorist conspiracy that led to police accountant Curtis Cheng’s death. Mr Cheng was gunned down outside the Parramatta […]

Law Enforcement

Accused conspirator in police shooting supported killing ‘non-believers’: court A man accused of conspiring in the shooting of a police accountant allegedly supported 'killing non-believers,' a court has been told.

(NCA NewsWire) A man accused of conspiring with others in the lead-up to the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng faced trial before the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday. Mustafa Dirani is alleged to have been one of those who assisted 15-year-old […]

Legal

France orders jail time for 2 men charged with funding terrorism in Syria with crypto: report The amount transferred via crypto by three Islamic extremists is estimated at around $280,000, one news outlet in France reported.

(CoinDesk) French authorities finalized prison sentences for two men who were arrested on charges of funding terrorism in Syria via cryptocurrencies, multiple local media outlets reported Friday. The two men, Franco-Algerian Sami Allem and Franco-Moroccan Abderrahman Cheikh, were sentenced in a Paris […]

Legal

Hamdi Alqudsi found guilty of planning attack on navy base, courthouse and Mardi Gras in Sydney A terrorist gathered men who pledged allegiance to ISIS and made plans to attack Sydney’s navy base and the Mardi Gras parade.

(NCA NewsWire) A Sydney man has been convicted of leading a terrorist group that planned to attack the city’s navy base, a courthouse, the Mardi Gras parade and Israeli embassy. Hamdi Alqudsi, 48, faced the NSW Supreme Court for a trial after […]

Legal

Rights court tells France to reconsider repatriation of Islamic State wives Europe’s top rights court found that Paris’ decision about which of its nationals it accepted back from camps in northern Syria was arbitrary and should be reviewed by an independent body.

(Courthouse News) The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday found France was in the wrong for refusing to repatriate two French women who joined the Islamic State terrorist group, ruling the process is too arbitrary. Paris violated a clause in the […]

Legal

Nice 2016 attacker ‘cannot be divorced from ISIS’ Six years after attack that killed 86 people in southern France, there is a chance to bring accomplices to justice

(National-UAE) French officers investigating the 2016 Nice attack told a court that the ISIS terrorist group bore responsibility for the “lone wolf” rampage, having drawn in Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel through propaganda in the weeks before the July 14 killing spree. The Tunisian used […]