(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
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(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 […]
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(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, […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(AP) A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a challenge to the constitutionality of the government’s terrorist watchlist, ruling that the government deserves wide latitude in establishing programs designed to protect national security. A group of two dozen Muslim plaintiffs sued in […]
(NJ.com) President Joe Biden, making his first picks for the federal bench, announced Tuesday he would nominate Zahid Quraishi for the U.S. District Court. If confirmed, Quraishi will be the first Muslim American to serve as a federal district judge. Quraishi, a […]
(CBC) A woman who testified in a sexual assault trial that ended with the conviction of a Surrey imam is being recognized with an award for her bravery. The woman, whose identity is protected by a B.C. Supreme Court order, spent six weeks […]
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