(AFP) A Spanish court on Tuesday granted parole to one of the men convicted for his role in the 2017 attacks in Catalonia that claimed 16 lives. The special court responsible for terrorism cases ordered the conditional release of Said Ben Iazza, […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court has opened a probe after a car ploughed into a bar terrace, killing a diner, to establish whether the driver was motivated by “terrorism,” judicial sources said Tuesday. The incident, which was initially thought to be an […]
(Breitbart) A Danish court has sentenced 29-year-old Adam Touhou to six years in prison and to be stripped of his citizenship followed by deportation for recruiting for the Islamic State terror group. Touhou began speaking with Hafed Matoussi on Facebook in 2013 about […]
(Radio France) On Monday, at the start of the third week of the Paris November 2015 terror trial, two police experts described the scenes at La Belle Équipe bar, where 21 people died in a hail of bullets, and at the Comptoir […]
(Detroit News) An Ypsilanti man indicted on gun charges who the FBI accused of being an Islamic State supporter was convicted Monday in the first federal, criminal jury verdict in Metro Detroit since the start of the pandemic. Yousef Ramadan, 32, was convicted […]
(BBC) Hossam Metwally has been sentenced for poisoning his partner during a series of exorcism ceremonies which left her on the brink of death. The doctor’s trial, which could not be reported until its conclusion, over his “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic […]
(NL Times) Aziz A. was sentenced to 15 years and nine months in prison on Monday for, among other things, leading a terrorist organization and preparing terrorist crimes. A., who suddenly popped up in De Balie debate center in Amsterdam in 2017, […]
(BBC) A doctor who poisoned his partner in a series of bogus exorcism ceremonies has been jailed for 14 and a half years. Hossam Metwally, 61, brought Kelly Wilson to the brink of death by injecting her with drugs during the sessions […]
(Radio France) The second week of the Paris trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killing of 130 people brought us from the legal technicalities of the crimes allegedly committed to the stark humanity of the dead, the […]
(Radio France) The second week of the Paris hearing at which 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015 came to an end with the presentation […]
(Radio France) This trial of 20 men accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks which cost the lives of 130 people in Paris on 13 November 2015 was always going to be difficult for the families of those killed or injured. The […]
(AAP) A Sydney Islamic State member whose online martyrdom posts included Canberra’s Parliament House flying a black flag says he was naive and brainwashed. “I have completely renounced my membership of IS and any other terrorist organisation,” Youssef Uweinat told the NSW […]
(Deutsche Welle) A 16-year-old accused of planning an “Islamist-motivated” attack on a synagogue in the western German city of Hagen was remanded in custody on Friday, the Düsseldorf prosecutors office said. The young Syrian national who lives in Hagen was detained Thursday. […]
(AFP) Ten men accused of involvement in the March 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people will face trial, Belgian federal prosecutors said Friday. Six of the suspects, including 32-year-old French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, are currently on trial in France over […]
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) The Syrian man accused of plotting to bomb a North Side church in 2019 talked about potentially planting a second explosive device, timing its detonation to coincide with when first responders would begin to arrive, federal prosecutors said Thursday. That […]
(Detroit Free Press) Northville Dr. Jumana Nagarwala may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn’t the only doctor who was cutting children, federal prosecutors disclosed Thursday. Rather, they said, […]
(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors on Thursday said they had indicted four men on suspicion of supporting Islamist extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra. One of the men is also accused of joining the group and traveling to Syria to fight with the breakaway […]
(Radio France) The director of the investigation into the Belgian links to the November 2015 Paris attacks told the court on Tuesday that it was “the toughest case” she had ever worked on. She also praised the exceptional collaboration between France and […]
(Age) Khaled Temssah listed his attributes like he was making a pitch in his daytime job of selling cars. He knew martial arts, could use a rifle and had been hunting many times, spoke Arabic and was blessed with a “good tongue” […]
(Detroit Free Press) Nearly five years after it emerged, the nation’s first female genital mutilation case has taken yet another turn in a heated feud between a government that says children were unlawfully cut and a doctor who says she only “scraped” young […]
(Algemeiner) A French court has acquitted an imam in the city of Toulouse of incitement to racial hatred for a sermon he gave in 2017 that quoted a hadith — a saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammed — predicting the mass killing […]
(AFP) The sole survivor of the jihadist cell that killed 130 people in Paris six years ago Wednesday claimed France “knew the risks” of attacking jihadist targets in Syria at the trial into France’s worst postwar atrocity. “We attacked France, targeted its […]
(Radio France) The second week of the Paris November 2015 terror trial began with the continuation of the reading of the court president’s report, the ten-hour overview of the facts as they appear after six years of criminal investigation. And then the […]
(Radio NZ) A 19-year-old accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims will keep his identity secret for now, after an appearance in North Shore District Court. The man was arrested in Auckland last week — just days after the LynnMall terror attack — […]
(Cleveland.com) A northwest Ohio resident who admitted plotting a mass shooting at a Toledo-area synagogue to show his allegiance to ISIS was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison. Damon M. Joseph, aka Abdullah Ali Yusuf, 23, of Holland, Ohio, was arrested […]
(Globe and Mail) The Tax Court of Canada tried to ensure no Muslims appeared before a Jewish judge who was under investigation amid allegations of bias related to the Israel-Palestine conflict, a court record shows. Last fall, while the Canadian Judicial Council […]
(Global News) Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he hasn’t “ruled out” federal intervention to challenge Bill 21 in court. The contentious bill, also known as Quebec’s “secularism bill,” is legislation across the province that prohibits public service workers, including teachers, lawyers and […]
(NL Times) Faction leader of the Party of Unity in The Hague, Arnoud van Doorn, will appear in court on Tuesday, due to anti-Semitic tweets the council member posted a few years ago. The lawyer of the 55-year-old, Anis Boumanjal, said he […]
(Radio France) After two and a half days of legal technicalities, the real business of the Paris November 2015 terror trial got under way on Friday with the reading of the court president’s report — a detailed and lengthy chronology of the […]
(Age) Two fires north-east of Melbourne, that were allegedly deliberately lit, will be scrutinised at a hearing for two brothers accused of attempting a terror act, to determine whether they stand trial. Ari and Aran Sherani, aged 20 and 19, respectively, are […]
(NZ Herald) A teenager has appeared in court charged with threatening to kill non-Muslims. The 19-year-old appeared by audiovisual link at North Shore District Court this afternoon, one week after a terrorist went on a stabbing frenzy in New Lynn. His name […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A husband and wife from Montgomery County each were ordered Thursday to spend more than a year in federal prison for sending money overseas to help two relatives travel to Syria and join ISIS. Shahidul Gaffar, 40, and Nabila Khan, […]
(Reuters) Lithuania on Thursday sent five Afghan migrants back to Belarus shortly after they had crossed the border despite the European Court of Human Rights earlier saying they should be allowed to stay. The migrants had tried to enter Lithuania unsuccessfully at […]
(Courthouse News) Austria was wrong to not give an Iraqi refugee a second chance at asylum after he revealed he was gay, the European Union’s highest court held Thursday. The European Court of Justice found that an Iraqi man who applied for […]
(AFP) The main defendant in the trial over the November 2015 attacks in Paris disrupted proceedings Thursday with a new outburst in court, claiming three of his co-accused knew nothing about the jihadist plot. Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the group […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) The parents of an alleged ISIS member are willing to cancel their internet connection and remove their son’s bedroom door to allow them to supervise him, the NSW Supreme Court has heard. Joseph Saadieh, 24, was arrested in June […]
(AP) Immigration officers feared him. So, too, did prosecutors, prison officials and police. They thought he could launch a terror attack at any moment. Even the prime minister wanted him deported. Yet, in the end, nobody in New Zealand was able to […]
(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, the 31-year-old French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of the group that carried out the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris, told a courtroom on Wednesday that he was a “soldier of the Islamic State group.” […]
(AFP) The new military judge presiding over the September 11 attacks trial in Guantanamo Bay said Wednesday he would not force it toward an end — but that he wanted to see “action” after nine years of hearings. Air Force Colonel Matthew […]
(Age) Three men who planned to shoot and kill innocent members of the public were unlikely to have plotted a terror attack if not for the inducement of a covert police operative, a judge has ruled. However, brothers Ertunc and Samed Eriklioglu […]
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(Radio France) The trial opens in Paris on Wednesday of the twenty men accused of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks which left 130 people dead in the French capital. Who are the accused? What are they suspected of having done? […]
(CNN) Five alleged 9/11 plotters, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who has been called the mastermind behind the September 11 terrorist attacks, appeared in a military court for a pretrial hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday. All five are accused of having […]
(CNN) Pretrial hearings in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been accused of being the lead plotter behind the September 11 attacks, and four other detainees held at Guantanamo Bay are set to resume on Tuesday. The last in-person hearing […]
(Anadolu) Greece must put an end to its interventionist practices and policies of pressure against Muslim religious leaders elected by the Turkish minority in Western Thrace, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Saturday. Mevlut Cavusoglu’s statement came on Twitter after Ibrahim Serif, the […]
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(AFP) The biggest trial in France’s modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Paris that saw 130 people slaughtered at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. The suicide bombing and gun assault by three teams of […]
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(Radio NZ) Name suppression for the man responsible for yesterday’s terror attack at a west Auckland supermarket has been revoked, but his name cannot be published yet, with the High Court giving his family at least 24 hours to seek further suppression […]
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