(Age) Secret jailhouse letters traded between a convicted terrorist and a Melbourne woman accused of recruiting for Islamic State have been read aloud in court as one of the women fights to be released back into the community. Hadashah Sa’adat Khan, 23, […]
(Euronews) More than five years after the 2015 Paris attacks, the Belgian justice system has finally begun its examination of the people accused of aiding and abetting the terrorists. Tuesday’s hearing, which took place at the Brussels Council Chamber, was held in […]
(Expats.cz) The Prague Municipal Court upheld a ruling by the Prague 10 District Court that halted the case of a Muslim nursing student who was not allowed to wear a hijab by her secondary school. The verdict has taken effect. The incident […]
(WCJB) A former Gainesville resident is back in the United States and is facing terrorism charges. He was arrested overseas on Friday and arrived in north-central Florida early Sunday morning. Mohamed Fathy Suliman is charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to […]
(BBC) A man accused of assaulting a security guard at a former Kent barracks where asylum seekers are held has appeared in court. Mohammed Ali, 22, was arrested on Friday — the day a fire broke out in one of the accommodation […]
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(AP) A Washington-based Syrian rights group filed a case with the International Criminal Court on Thursday, calling for an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by Greece for its mistreatment of refugees. The Syria Justice and Accountability Center said witness testimony and […]
(Courthouse News) The European Court of Human Rights heard arguments Wednesday over whether Norway violated the religious rights of a Muslim woman whose child was forcibly adopted by Christians. During a remote hearing before the ECHR, lawyers for Mariya Ibrahim argued the […]
(CBC) France’s court of appeal has ordered Canadian academic Hassan Diab to stand trial in connection with a 40-year-old bombing attack outside a Paris synagogue — three years after a lower court set him free due to a lack of evidence. Diab’s […]
(Kathimerini) Greece will extradite to the Netherlands a 37-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who is wanted for suspected terrorism offences, it was announced Wednesday. The man, who arrived on the island of Samos from Turkey on 4 October 2018, was arrested at a […]
(AP) A panel of federal appellate judges expressed concerns about ordering wholesale changes to a government watchlist of roughly 1 million individuals labeled as “known or suspected terrorists,” despite a lower court finding that the list was constitutionally flawed. The 4th U.S. […]
(BBC) A man found with bomb-making manuals and speeches on Islamic State has told a court he is “not a terrorist.” Souhaib Embarek was caught sharing “terrorist tutorials” and had videos and images of terrorist attacks. He admits five charges of possession […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Tuesday sentenced a man to seven years in prison over plans to … shoot dead a critic of Islam as part of an “Islamic State” (IS) terror cell. Summing up the four-month trial, a Düsseldorf court […]
(KSAT) A 22-year-old Guadalupe County man pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, Jaylyn Christopher Molina (aka Abdur Rahim) admitted in federal court in San Antonio […]
(Breitbart) Three radicalised Muslims face trial after being accused of plotting to commit a terror attack against Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protestors in Paris in 2018. The three men, brothers Kamel and Hilial A. and 54-year-old Islamic convert Rémi M., were first accused of […]
(Detroit Free Press) Starting next month, the new top federal prosecutor in Detroit will be Saima Mohsin, the first Muslim to be a U.S. attorney in Michigan and the country, according to federal officials and Muslim advocates. On Feb. 2, Mohsin, 52, is to become the […]
(Arizona Republic) The Council [on] American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed an appeal Friday in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a decision dismissing a case against the Maricopa Community College District and one of its professors for teaching material that […]
(Courthouse News) Italy is illegally sending asylum seekers who cross its borders back into the Balkans, where they are routinely beaten and mistreated by police, according to an Italian judge. In a ruling this week, Judge Silvia Albano with the Court of […]
(BBC) A man accused of having explosives, detonators and documents referring to jihad and combat has appeared before Westminster magistrates. Asad Bhatti, charged with terrorism offences, did not enter a plea. The 47-year-old from Redhill, Surrey, was arrested after police raided a […]
(BBC) The attorney general’s bid to increase the minimum sentence of a Newcastle man who incited a German terror cell to commit mass murder has failed. Lawyers for Suella Braverman argued that Fatah Abdullah’s nine-year minimum term was too lenient. They also […]
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(BBC) An Islamic extremist has admitted sharing “terrorist tutorials” and having a stash of bomb and poison-making instructions. Souhaib Embarek, 34, was arrested after firearms officers forced entry into his Bristol home on 9 December 2019. He denied two charges of disseminating […]
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(Dallas Morning News) An Irving man pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping his fugitive father elude capture for more than a dozen years in the alleged murders of his two teenage daughters, federal authorities said. Islam Yaser-Abdel Said, 32, entered a guilty plea […]
(AP) Two Syrians have been charged in Germany for alleged links to a terrorist organization on suspicion they were involved in the killing of an army officer in their homeland in 2012, prosecutors said Monday. Khedr A.K. was charged with membership in […]
(Swiss Info) A French court has sentenced a Swiss man to 15 years in prison for terror-related charges after finding him guilty of recruiting a group of men online to prepare terror attacks in France and Switzerland. The 31-year-old from Yverdon, canton […]
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(MPR) A St. Louis Park, Minn., man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to fighting with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, 24, is due to be sentenced May 26 on a single count of providing material support to a designated […]
(Kathimerini) A Greek court rejected on Wednesday an extradition request by Tajikistan against a 27-year-old national who is wanted on an international arrest warrant for his alleged ties to the ISIS terrorist group. The members of the Board of Appeals in the […]
(Houston Chronicle) A Houston woman faces a rare federal charge after she was accused of transporting a girl outside of the United States for genital mutilation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced Wednesday. Zahra Badri, 39, was […]
(AP) A Muslim school board member from northern Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit alleging her civil rights were violated after she was pepper-sprayed during a traffic stop and then photographed without her hijab following her arrest. Abrar Omeish, who was elected […]
(AFP) A court in Spain on Monday remanded in custody three suspected members of Islamic State arrested last week in Barcelona, including an Algerian man who had fought for the Islamist group in Iraq. Spanish authorities began their investigation after becoming aware […]
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(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) A former University of Pittsburgh student who has a “fascination with terrorism” will remain incarcerated pending trial on charges that he threatened an FBI agent. U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Lanzillo ruled that Khaled Miah, 27, poses a potential threat to […]
(Portugal News) Rugui Djaló, a Guinean citizen residing in Portugal, was sentenced on 8 January, at the Sintra Court, to a three-year prison term for the crime of genital mutilation of her daughter. The presiding judge of the collective announced that “there […]
(Boston Herald) Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is suing the federal government for $250,000 over what he says in a hand-written lawsuit is “disturbing” and “unprofessional” treatment inside the supermax prison in Colorado. Tsarnaev, now 26, accuses guards and the warden at the […]
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(Algemeiner) A French imam is to be prosecuted for racial hatred over a sermon he delivered in 2017 calling for Muslims to “fight the Jews.” Algerian-born Mohamed Tatai was indicted at the end of 2018 for “public verbal provocation to hatred or […]
(AP) A federal judge on Tuesday granted the lawyer for a man charged with helping the Islamic State group maintain an online presence almost a year to prepare for a complicated trial involving classified information. Hawazen Sameer Mothafar, whose trial had been […]
(Brussels Times) Ten of the thirteen suspects of the Brussels attacks of 22 March 2016 will be referred to the Court of Assizes, the Council Chamber of Brussels decided. The Court of Assizes deals with the most serious crimes. In this case, […]
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(NCA NewsWire) A Sydney Islamic State supporter who pledged allegiance to a terrorist leader has been slapped with an interim control order a day before he is due to walk from jail. Western Sydney man Radwan Dakkak was handed the order by […]
(Florida Politics) A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a district judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Florida conservative political activist and media figure Laura Loomer, who alleged a Muslim civil-rights organization helped engineer her removal from Twitter. A three-judge panel […]
(Stars and Stripes) Polish authorities have charged two Iraqi citizens with financing the Islamic State, following a yearslong investigation into money transfers to a German man who went to Syria to join the terror group. The two Iraqi men, who were charged […]
(NCA NewsWire) A convicted terrorist will stay behind bars despite finishing his sentence after a judge agreed he was an “unacceptable risk” to the community. Victorian Supreme Court Justice Andrew Tinney ruled on Christmas Eve that Abdul Nacer Benbrika will spend a […]
(ABC-Australia) A Perth man has been charged with advocating terrorism, following an investigation by commonwealth authorities. Abdussalam Adina-Zada made a brief appearance in Perth Magistrates Court this morning on four counts of advocating terrorism, with the alleged offences occurring between November 2019 […]
(Anadolu) The US’s largest Muslim civil rights organization on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to grant clemency to four former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians. National executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Nihad Awad said the […]
(NY Daily News) A former Olympic boxer charged with the strangulation of his daughter — an activist for the rights of Muslim women — was arraigned on murder charges Tuesday and ordered held without bail, the Staten Island district attorney said. Kabary […]
(Copenhagen Post) The Eastern High Court has upheld a City Court ruling in the high-profile case involving a planned terror action in Copenhagen. Moyed Al Zoebi, 33, was handed a 12-year prison sentence by the City Court for trying to organise a […]
(BBC) A Libyan man arrested in connection with the Manchester Arena bombing has been awarded £83,000 in damages after his details were published online. Alaedeen Sicri, 26, was held but later released without charge following the attack in 2017 which killed 22 […]
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