Children & Teens
Schoolboy denies five terrorism charges after arrest in St Albans (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Teacher sues Al-Taqwa principal for sexual harassment, assault
(Age) The principal of Victoria’s largest Islamic school is being sued by a female teacher for sexual harassment and assault. Omar Hallak, the founder and principal of Al-Taqwa College in Truganina in Melbourne’s outer west, allegedly sexually assaulted or harassed the then-25-year-old […]
Academics & Education
CAIR urges Georgetown University to probe student complaints of Islamophobia Following multiple student reports of a professor's Islamophobic remarks in the classroom, CAIR is calling on Georgetown University to investigate.
(New Arab) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on Georgetown University Law Center to look into student claims of Islamophobia by a law professor. In a letter to the law school this week, CAIR Maryland director Zainab Chaudry wrote that they […]
Children & Teens
Leeds boy, aged 15, accused of buying bomb parts and machete for terror attack — Westminster Magistrates’ Court
(Yorkshire Evening Post) A 15-year-old Leeds boy has appeared in court accused of buying knives and parts for an improvised explosive device to be used in a suicide bombing. The teenager spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address […]
Legal
Paris attacks accused explains why he has decided to stay silent
(Radio France) Thursday’s session of the Paris terror trial, the 94th day of a legal marathon which is likely to last at least another three months, was overshadowed by the decision of two of the accused … Osama Krayem and Sofien Ayari […]
Legal
In the wake of defence walk-out, Abdeslam and Amri testify at Paris terror trial
(Radio France) The terrorist survivor of the Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam resumed his evidence late on Wednesday, after the court had heard and dismissed claims of prejudice from some of the defence lawyers. It was as if Tuesday’s mass walk-out by the […]
Legal
Lisa Smith trial: Prosecution case to end next week (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Drama as defence lawyers stage mass walk-out at November 2015 terror trial
(Radio France) Tuesday’s session at the special criminal court in Paris ended abruptly when the fifty lawyers defending those accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks left the courtroom en masse. They were protesting against “an atmosphere unfavourable to their […]
Legal
Smith said terrorist leader ‘did something while the rest of us just sit and talk,’ trial hears (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
U.S. government initiates plea talks with 9/11 defendants
(Lawdragon) The prosecution in the Sept. 11 case has entered into plea negotiations with legal teams for the five defendants accused of planning the attacks that would take the death penalty off the table in exchange for guilty pleas to war crimes, […]
Legal
Chief Paris attacks suspect tells court he killed no one — reporter
(Reuters) Salah Abdeslam, believed to be the sole surviving member of the Islamist squad that struck Paris in November 2015, told a court on Tuesday that he did not know of the attack plot from the outset and that he bore no […]
Legal
Women who tried to leave Islamic State faced severe punishment, Lisa Smith trial told (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
GOP raises red flag on Supreme Court nominee’s Guantánamo work
(Hill) Republicans are raising a red flag over Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s work on behalf of Guantánamo Bay detainees. Her work is coming up in closed-door meetings with Jackson as she sits down with GOP senators and Republican members of […]
Children & Teens
St Albans terror arrest: Teen in court on terror offence charges
(BBC) A 15-year-old accused of sharing bomb-making instructions on social media has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. He is alleged to have twice posted a propaganda video, made by the so-called Islamic State group, in chats on the Discord platform […]
Employment
Fake Croydon University Hospital cardiologist jailed for sharing Isis propaganda (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Guilty plea for Seattle man who tried to join Islamic State
(AP) A 21-year-old Seattle man pleaded guilty Monday to a terrorism-related charge after being arrested while trying to board a flight to join the Islamic State group. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams was arrested last June at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as he checked […]
Legal
Lisa Smith trial: Court to admit social scientist’s evidence (LINK ONLY)
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Alcohol & Drugs
Kalashnikovs or cannabis? What was Paris terror suspect trying to buy in Rotterdam?
(Radio France) On Thursday, the accused Ali El Haddad Asufi was questioned by the special criminal court about his possible involvement in helping the November 2015 Paris killers to obtain the Kalashnikov machine guns used in the attacks. Asufi admits that he […]
Legal
Lisa Smith trial: Court to rule on admissibility of political scientist’s evidence (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
New Mexico terror trial in limbo years after compound raid
(AP) A federal judge on Thursday sought to evaluate the mental health of a woman charged with kidnapping, firearms and terrorism-related counts — nearly four years after authorities arrested her and four other adults from an extended family at a squalid New […]
Legal
Denmark charges ‘ISIS fighter’ with treason Prosecutors say the 31-year-old Dane travelled to Syria and fought against the international coalition
(National-UAE) Danish prosecutors have for the first time charged a citizen accused of being an ISIS fighter in Syria with treason. The man was recruited in 2013 and remained with the group for four years until it was defeated on the battlefield, […]
Legal
DNA, TATP and other mysterious codes add confusion to Paris terror trial
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the trial of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks heard from a police investigator, from a DNA expert, and from a friend of several of the accused. The evidence was frequently intimidating, not to […]
Legal
People who travelled in support of Islamic State were Isis members, Lisa Smith trial told (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
France jails three over links to 2016 jihadist killing of priest
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced to jail terms of up to 13 years three men charged with connections to the brutal 2016 jihadist killing of an 85-year-old priest that shocked the country. Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit at […]
Demonstrations
Swiss court clears critics of Turkish president
(Swiss Info) A district court in Switzerland has acquitted four defendants accused of inciting violence against the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The judge ruled that a controversial banner shown by protesters at a 2017 demonstration in the Swiss capital, Bern, had […]
Legal
Teenager in court accused of Islamic State-inspired terror attack plan
(BBC) A north London teenager has appeared in court accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired terror attack. Al-Arfat Hassan, 19, is charged with preparing terrorist acts and collecting information useful to a terrorist. Mr Hassan, of Enfield, is alleged to have downloaded […]
Legal
The unsolved mystery of who supplied the Kalashnikovs used by the Paris killers
(Radio France) Tuesday was an unsatisfactory day at the Special Criminal Court in Paris, where those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried. The Belgian police investigation has never identified the source of the weapons used in […]
Internet
Lisa Smith’s Facebook messages with jihadists to be admitted as evidence (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
British-Moroccan woman who joined ISIS loses appeal to return to UK from Syria Mother-of-three, identified as U3, cannot be reunited with her children in the UK
(National-UAE) A British-Moroccan woman stripped of her citizenship after travelling to Syria with her husband to join ISIS has lost an appeal to return to the UK to join her three children. The woman, named only as U3, claimed she only went […]
Children & Teens
Parents jailed for ‘wanton cruelty’ to daughter they believed possessed by devil (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
High court reverses decision allowing Muslims’ FBI bias suit
(AP) The Supreme Court sided unanimously with the Biden administration Friday and reversed a lower court decision that had allowed a lawsuit to go forward by Muslim men claiming FBI religious bias. But the justices’ limited decision did not end the case, […]
Children & Teens
German mother on terror charges after ‘joining women-only ISIS unit’ in Syria Solale M is also accused of child protection offences after taking two children with her
(National-UAE) A German-Iranian mother has been charged with terrorism offences for allegedly joining a women-only ISIS combat unit after taking her two children to Syria. The woman — identified only as Solale M — was one of three German women arrested in […]
Legal
High court reimposes Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence
(AP) The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death […]
Children & Teens
Swedish woman jailed for war crimes over son becoming child soldier
(Reuters) A Swedish court found a Swedish woman guilty of war crimes for failing to prevent her 12-year-old son from becoming a child soldier in Syria, where he was killed in the civil war. The woman has denied the charges. “The district […]
Internet
Lisa Smith trial: Lawyers waving Data Protection Act like ‘garlic at vampire,’ court told (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Judges reject Ottawa-based Muslim charity’s bid to freeze suspension
(Canadian Press) A panel of judges has rejected a Muslim charity’s bid to freeze a federal suspension, which prohibits it from issuing tax receipts, while a challenge of the penalty plays out. The Canada Revenue Agency levied the one-year suspension against Ottawa-based […]
Law Enforcement
Paris defence lawyers attack Belgian police evidence as ‘confused approximation’
(Radio France) The second day of Belgian police evidence at the Paris terror trial was very similar to Tuesday’s opening of this chapter on the preparations for the attacks, especially in the combination of DNA evidence suggesting the presence of several of […]
Internet
Lawyer for Lisa Smith accuses Facebook of ‘wholesale breach’ of privacy rights (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Danish court jails exiled Iranians for spying for Saudi Arabia
(AFP) A Danish court on Wednesday sentenced three leaders of an Iranian Arab separatist group to between six and eight years in prison after they were convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia. Two members of the ASMLA (Arab Struggle Movement for the […]
Government & Politics
Wayne attorney nominated as state court judge would add to growing Muslim representation
(Bergen Record) Nadia Kahf, a family law attorney from Wayne, is poised to become one of just a handful of Muslim women to serve as a state Superior Court judge in New Jersey, after Gov. Phil Murphy nominated her earlier this week. […]
Legal
Defense lawyers seek to restrict testimony from ISIS ‘slave’
(AP) Defense lawyers for a British national facing trial later this month for helping the Islamic State group torture and behead American hostages are seeking to block testimony from a Kurdish girl held as a slave by the group. The girl, identified […]
Clothing
Top French court upholds ban on barristers wearing hijab in Lille courtrooms
(Reuters) France’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a ban on barristers wearing the hijab and other religious symbols in courtrooms in the north, a ruling that is the first of its kind and sets a precedent for the rest of the country. […]
Law Enforcement
Wigs, DNA and a sewing machine: The crucial evidence the Paris killers left behind
(Radio France) After an unscheduled two-week break provoked by cases of Covid-19 among the 14 accused, the Paris terror trial resumed on Tuesday with Belgian police evidence on the preliminary planning for the attacks — the efforts by the terrorists and their […]
Crime
Afghan brothers go on trial in Germany for ‘honour killing’ of sister
(Reuters) Two Afghan brothers suspected of killing their sister for adopting a Western lifestyle went on trial in Berlin on Wednesday, in a case that highlights the violence against women and cultural tensions among some recent migrants to Germany. The defendants, identified […]
Internet
Lawyers object to evidence of Lisa Smith’s alleged contact with convicted terrorists (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Bradford man Mohammad Owais Sabir charged with terror offences
(BBC) A man from Bradford has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. Mohammad Owais Sabir, of Mansfield Road, spoke only to confirm his name and address via videolink at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. He is accused of multiple crimes, including possessing articles […]
Legal
Lisa Smith talking ‘anti-western stuff’ and promoting Islam, says former colleague (LINK ONLY)
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Epic Paris terror trial reaches half-way stage with more questions than answers
(Radio France) Despite the ravages provoked by Covid-19, which have already led to three weeks of suspensions, the Paris terror trial has reached the end of its second major stage: the examination of the activities and religious attitudes of the accused up […]
Legal
Judges watch videos of Lisa Smith’s Garda interviews as trial resumes (LINK ONLY)
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Terror accused had knife in jihadi videos
(AAP) A Melbourne man made a jihadi video in which he brandished a knife, talked of spilling blood, and pledged allegiance to Islamic State, a court has heard. Two brothers, Aran Sherani, 21, and Ari Sherani, aged 20, have been charged with […]