Citizenship
Lisa Smith fights exclusion from the UK (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Academics & Education
Group representing hijab-wearing teachers launches appeal against Bill 21 decision
(Global News) After a Quebec Superior Court judge rendered a decision upholding most of the Legault government’s religious symbols ban for public employees, a new chapter in the legal battle over Bill 21 is set to begin. Coalition Inclusion Quebec, a group […]
Immigration
Feds push to extradite Phoenix driving school owner to Iraq
(AP) Prosecutors are urging a judge to approve a request to extradite a Phoenix driving school owner to Iraq on allegations that he participated in the killings of two police officers nearly 15 years ago in the Iraqi city of Fallujah as […]
Crime
Hull man concocted audacious plot to smuggle asylum seekers into UK (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Sacramento judge refuses to extradite refugee back to Iraq in murder case
(Sacramento Bee) In a major blow to federal prosecutors, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled Wednesday that Omar Ameen may not be extradited back to Iraq to face trial in the 2014 murder of an Iraqi police officer. The decision came in […]
Legal
German woman convicted over her time with IS in Syria
(AP) A German woman accused of joining the Islamic State group in Syria after traveling there with her young daughter was convicted on Wednesday of participating in a terrorist organization and other offenses. The state court in Duesseldorf sentenced the 35-year-old, whom […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Israel blasts French ruling keeping Sarah Halimi’s killer from trial Calling the murder ‘despicable,’ Foreign Ministry says court judgment fails to convey attitude of zero tolerance toward anti-Semitism
(Times of Israel) Israel blasted on Tuesday the ruling by France’s highest court that the murderer of Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. “Sarah Halimi was murdered for clearly anti-Semitic motivations, for the sole […]
Clothing
Quebec court decision on Bill 21 poses a conundrum for Justin Trudeau Once supportive of a court challenge, prime minister now faces re-election concerns
(CBC) Seeking re-election in October 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau baited his opponents over their lack of commitment to a court challenge against Bill 21, the controversial Quebec secularism law that bans public servants from wearing religious symbols at work. “I am […]
Academics & Education
Quebec Superior Court upholds most of religious symbols ban, but English-language schools exempt Government plans to appeal, saying exemption will create a more divided Quebec
(CBC) Quebec’s secularism law violates the basic rights of religious minorities in the province, but those violations are permissible because of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause, a Superior Court judge ruled on Tuesday. But the ruling by Justice Marc-André Blanchard also declared that […]
Crime
Muslim convert tasered at flat in Cornwall after threatening to shoot Jewish group Adam Burgoyne has a long history of committing crimes in Cornwall
(Cornwall Live) A Muslim convert threatened to carry out an atrocity against Jewish people before being tasered by armed police at his home in Cornwall. Adam Mark Burgoyne, 31, contacted another Muslim man in [an] attempt to get him to help him […]
Crime
Illegal immigration ‘crackdown’ nets only 71 prosecutions from 17,000 caught (LINK ONLY)
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Alcohol & Drugs
Macron urges law change after Jewish woman’s killer avoids trial
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron urged a change in French law after a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 avoided a trial on the grounds he acted in delirium due to drug-taking, in an interview published Monday. Jewish groups have reacted […]
Immigration
Refugees win rare victory in landmark Serbia pushback ruling
(AP) Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees in a forest. Crammed into a police van, the refugees from Afghanistan thought they were headed to an asylum-seekers’ camp […]
Children & Teens
Court sentences man who married 13-year-old in Iraq and brought her to Finland
(Breitbart) A Finnish court has sentenced an Iraqi migrant to four years in prison after being convicted of several crimes when he married a 13-year-old girl in Iraq and brought her to Finland in 2014. The Iraqi-background man, who is 30 years […]
Clothing
Court ruling on Quebec’s religious symbols law expected Tuesday Bill 21 has been challenged by several groups, including the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
(Montreal Gazette) A highly anticipated legal decision on Quebec’s religious symbols law is expected to be issued on Tuesday. Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-André Blanchard heard arguments last winter for and against Bill 21, the controversial secularism law adopted by the Legault […]
Government & Politics
Italy’s Salvini sent to trial on migrant kidnapping charge
(Reuters) Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy’s right-wing League party, must stand trial on charges of kidnapping over his decision to prevent more than 100 migrants from landing in the country in 2019, a judge ordered on Saturday. Salvini, who was interior minister […]
Health & Medicine
Amsterdam man cleared of planning terror attack on Gay Pride
(Dutch News) A 32-year-old man from Amsterdam has been sentenced to five months in jail to be followed by compulsory psychiatric treatment for making threats against gay people, Jews and the police on social media but was found not guilty of planning […]
Clothing
City council approves $175k settlement with woman who had hijab removed while in Yonkers police custody
(Yonkers Times) For the first time in more than one year, the Yonkers City Council returned to their chambers on the 4th floor of City Hall to hold their regular meeting on April 13. At that meeting the council adopted the following […]
Legal
Denmark charges three members of Iranian opposition group for financing terrorist activity
(Reuters) Denmark’s public prosecutor said on Thursday it had charged three members of an Iranian Arab opposition group for financing and supporting terrorist activity in Iran in collaboration with Saudi Arabian intelligence services. The three members of the Arab Struggle Movement for […]
Health & Medicine
Repatriated Vic nurse admits terror charge
(AAP) An Australian father of five who travelled to the Middle East as a nurse has pleaded guilty to a terror charge after more than five years of legal arguments. Melbourne nurse Adam Brookman was repatriated to Australia in 2015 after allegedly […]
Alcohol & Drugs
French top court upholds decision not to try Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor while high on marijuana
(JTA) Relatives of a Paris woman who was killed by her neighbor while he spewed anti-Semitic slurs and was high on marijuana have lost their final appeal to have the killer tried. In its decision Wednesday, the Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court […]
Legal
Terror offender monitoring rules lawful
(BBC) The High Court has upheld the Ministry of Justice’s power to impose tighter curbs on the movements of convicted terrorists in the wake of the Fishmongers’ Hall attack. Two judges rejected challenges from an associate of the man who carried out […]
Law Enforcement
Hezbollah sleeper agent looks to beat 40-year sentence Ali Kourani said the FBI tricked him into incriminating himself, landing him a sentence nearly three times longer than those handed down for more serious terrorism charges.
(Courthouse News) A Lebanese man who told the FBI he planned to become a suicide bomber for the terrorist group Hezbollah fought to overturn his 40-year sentence at the Second Circuit on Tuesday, saying agents led him to believe the information he […]
Academics & Education
Scottsdale professor who offended Muslims gets hefty settlement from college district
(Phoenix New Times) The Maricopa County Community College District has agreed to pay $155,000 in a settlement to a Scottsdale professor whose quiz questions about terrorism offended Muslims. In return, Scottsdale Community College Professor Nicholas Damask agreed not to pursue a lawsuit […]
Legal
Dutch court sentences wife of ISIS member to four years in prison
(Jurist) The Court of Rotterdam announced on Monday that Fatima H. has been sentenced to four years in prison in the Netherlands for her involvement with the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Shaam (ISIS) or Islamic State […]
Legal
Terror plotter who claimed he was peaceful ‘Alan Titchmarsh fan’ jailed for life (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Norway charges man over thwarted attacks in London, Denmark
(AP) A man has been charged in Norway for his alleged role in plans to carry out three extremist attacks in Denmark and in London, and for purportedly spreading Islamic State group propaganda on the internet. Authorities believe the 24-year-old man, who […]
Legal
Syrian on trial in Germany for killing man, injuring another
(AP) A Syrian man went on trial Monday accused of killing a German man and seriously injuring another in an attack last year that prosecutors said was motivated by Islamic extremist ideology. The trial of Abdullah A.H.H., whose full name wasn’t released […]
Immigration
Italy releases impounded migrant ship for routine upkeep
(AP) The Alan Kurdi rescue ship operated by a German nongovernmental organization has been released by an administrative court in Italy to return to Spain for routine maintenance and inspection, the group, Sea-Eye, said in [a] statement Sunday. The ship was impounded […]
Children & Teens
Son of suspected Isis fighter wins back Irish passport (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Italian prosecutor says Salvini should not be tried in Gregoretti migrant case
(Reuters) A prosecutor said on Saturday that Italy’s right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini should not be sent to trial over illegally detaining migrants in a case being considered by a court in the Sicilian city of Catania. The high-profile case, for which […]
Children & Teens
Term cut to 19 yrs for man who torched school bus Senegalese-Italian Omar Sy, 48, sees term cut from 24 yrs
(ANSA) A man who hijacked and later torched a school bus with 50 children, two teachers and a janitor aboard near Milan in March 2019 on Friday saw his sentence for attempted murder cut from 24 years to 19 on appeal. Senegalese-Italian […]
Legal
Zion man gets more than 13 years in prison for conspiracy to support Islamic State, telling informant ‘I want to see blood flowing’ U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood called Edward Schimenti the 'more culpable' of the two men charged in the case, but she also described the crime as 'on the less serious end of a scale that starts at a very serious level.'
(Chicago Sun-Times) A federal judge on Friday sentenced a Zion man to 13 and a half years in prison for taking part in a conspiracy to support the Islamic State, in part by collecting cellphones he thought could be used as detonators […]
Children & Teens
Rochdale grooming gang paedophiles launch another appeal to stay in UK (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Six Islamic State women suspected of war crimes after returning to Sweden
(Breitbart) Six female Islamic State members who have returned to Sweden in the past year after being held in prison camps in Syria are suspected of participating in war crimes. The six women, all members of Islamic State who came back to […]
Legal
Ex-Drexel student whose Facebook posts wished ‘death to all Americans’ will be deported for ties to Yemeni rebels Gaafar al-Wazer was suspended from an English-language program at Drexel after staff became concerned about Facebook posts showing him carrying an AK-47 and wishing 'death to all Americans.'
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A former Drexel University student jailed since 2019 for lying about his contact with anti-American insurgents in Yemen will be released from custody and immediately deported under a deal approved Thursday by a federal judge in Philadelphia. FBI agents arrested […]
Crime
Manchester Arena bomb plotter calls prison guard ‘filthy pig’ in court outburst (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim civil rights group sues Facebook over hate speech
(AP) A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives, saying CEO Mark Zuckerberg made “false and deceptive” statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and other material that violates its rules. The lawsuit, filed […]
Legal
Isis supporter who knew Westminster attacker committed 15 terror offences after release from prison (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Manchester Arena attacker’s brother and Parsons Green bomber refuse to attend court over prison guard attack (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
State lawyer fired for anti-Islam tweets files speech suit
(Bloomberg) An attorney alleges the Tennessee Supreme Court’s board of professional responsibility unlawfully fired him for posting tweets that an opposing party said displayed anti-Muslim bias, arguing his social media posts were constitutionally protected political speech similar to that of former president […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim nuclear plant engineer wins religious discrimination claim after bosses called police (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Judge deciding whether to free Knox man accused of helping ISIS recruit fighters
(Knoxville News Sentinel) A federal magistrate judge on Monday withheld an immediate ruling on the fate of a 31-year-old Knoxville man accused of serving as an interpreter and media representative for ISIS. Benjamin Alan Carpenter, who also uses the name Abu Hamza, […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Call for ‘Scottish exceptionalism’ to be tackled after Westminster’s race report (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
10 suspects face trial for involvement in Brussels terror attacks in 2016
(Brussels Times) The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is sticking to its initial submissions regarding the suspects charged with involvement in the 2016 Brussels attacks that left 32 people dead, spokesman Eric Van der Sypt said on Sunday. Confirming information carried by La Dernière […]
Children & Teens
Girl’s beatings livestreamed
(Otago Daily Times) A teenage refugee was subjected to protracted, livestreamed beatings by her own family after supposedly bringing shame on them, a court has heard. “What’s just absolutely appalling is that she was hit so many times she couldn’t tell the […]
Government & Politics
Finns Party MP facing third ethnic agitation charge Sebastian Tynkkynen has been found guilty on two previous occasions of agitating against an ethnic group.
(Yle) Finns Party Member of Parliament Sebastian Tynkkynen has been charged for a third time with ethnic agitation, after an indictment was filed in Oulu District Court at the end of March. Tynkkynen has two previous convictions for similar offences. He was […]
Academics & Education
Webber Academy asks judge to overturn Muslim prayer order
(Calgary Herald) Ordering a private Calgary school to allow Muslim students to pray on campus negatively affected the non-denominational principle that attracted parents and teachers to the institution, a lawyer argued Thursday. David Corry, who represents Webber Academy, said Justice Richard Neufeld […]
Legal
Prosecutors seek life term for would-be NYC suicide bomber
(AP) A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should spend the rest of his life behind bars for a “premeditated and vicious” terror attack committed on behalf of Islamic […]
Legal
Ontario woman facing terror-related charges granted bail Haleema Mustafa and Ikar Mao awaiting June trial on 2 terror-related charges
(CBC) An Ontario woman facing terror-related charges with her husband after they allegedly tried to cross the Turkish border to Syria two years ago has been granted bail. Haleema Mustafa, 23, appeared Wednesday morning via Zoom in Ontario Superior Court in Brampton from […]