(AAP) A Sydney university student with extensive connections to violent extremists will be monitored for three years, despite a finding that he hasn’t shown a current desire to become a terrorist. The NSW Supreme Court this week ordered Marsfield man Maywand Osman […]
(AFP) Belgium will put 14 suspects on trial for allegedly aiding those who carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 people dead, the federal prosecution service said Wednesday. Those facing trial are accused of having transported, housed or provided […]
(Yorkshire Evening Post) A terrorist who plotted to kill MPs outside the Houses of Parliament attacked a prison officer with a frying pan and stabbed him with a pen in Wakefield Prison. Khalid Ali, who is also serving a life sentence for […]
(AFP) A notorious Iraqi preacher said to be the Islamic State jihadist group’s de facto leader in Germany was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison by a German court on Wednesday. The 37-year-old Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah Abdullah, better known […]
(AP) A former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s secret police was convicted Wednesday by a German court of facilitating the torture of prisoners in a landmark ruling that human rights activists hope will set a precedent for other cases in the […]
(WCJB) A federal grand jury has formally indicted a former University of Florida student accused of attempting to assist the terrorist organization ISIS. Mohamed Suliman was indicted on charges of attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization. Previously, a judge […]
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(AP) Human rights campaigners and torture survivors are closely watching a verdict expected from a German court Wednesday in the trial of a former member of the Syrian secret police, hoping the decision will set a precedent for other cases. Eyad Al-Gharib […]
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(MLive) Four women convicted of murder say in a federal lawsuit that Michigan prison officials violated their rights when they forced them to remove religious headwear for mug shots. The lawsuit is seeking class-action status on behalf of all prisoners, requesting a […]
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(Washington Post) Families of three slain U.S. service members and 13 others wounded in a mass shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 alleged Monday that the government of Saudi Arabia facilitated the attack, which U.S. authorities concluded was an act […]
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(Sacramento Bee) A federal grand jury in Sacramento has indicted a Russian national on charges of attempting to provide material support to a Syrian organization the U.S. State Department has labeled as a foreign terrorist organization. Murat Kurashev, a Sacramento resident who […]
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(NL Times) Junaid I. was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the appeals court for threatening an attack on PVV leader Geert Wilders in 2018 after the far-right politician announced a contest for the best cartoon featuring the prophet Muhammad. The […]
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(AFP) Two French citizens and a Moroccan on Wednesday received heavy prison terms for an attack plot that was foiled after an intelligence agent posing as a jihadist infiltrated their cyber network. The criminal court sentenced Hicham Makran to 22 years in […]
(AFP) Spanish judges on Wednesday began deliberating a verdict in the trial of three men accused of helping the jihadists behind the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town that killed 16. The Islamic State (IS) group took responsibility for the […]
(Anadolu) Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey’s president. Prosecutors in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe of Wilders, who heads the Dutch Party […]
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(AFP) The families of two of the victims of November’s jihadist attack in Vienna city centre are suing the Austrian state for compensation because of official failings, their lawyers said Tuesday. Convicted Islamic State sympathiser Kujtim Fejzulai killed four people before being […]
(BBC) A terror suspect who cut off an electronic monitoring tag and fled his home has pleaded guilty to breaching counter-terror rules. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is a senior member of the banned terrorist group al-Muhajiroun. He […]
(AP) A naturalized Danish man was charged Monday with planning to commit an act of terror in an unknown location in Denmark or abroad, Denmark’s top prosecutor said. The 24-year-old man, who was not named, was arrested April 30, 2020, after he […]
(AFP) Germany has charged five Tajik men with membership of an Islamic State terror cell that recruited members and planned attacks on German soil, prosecutors said Monday. A sixth member of the same cell, Ravsan B., was sentenced to seven years in […]
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(Corona Press-Enterprise) The mother of one of the two shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack was sentenced to six months of home confinement and three years of probation on Thursday, Feb. 11, for shredding a document that her son had […]
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(Breitbart) A former municipal elections candidate in Belgium who stood for the pro-sharia Islam party has been sentenced after a court found him guilty of making death threats. Philippe Latteur had dropped out of the 2018 race in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert because he could […]
(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors charged a Syrian national suspected of stabbing two men last year in the eastern city of Dresden, German media outlets reported Thursday. The 20-year-old suspect is said to have been motivated by a radical Islamist ideology, and […]
(AFP) French far-right leader Marine Le Pen appeared in court Wednesday on charges she broke hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a case she slammed as a politically motivated attempt to silence her. The trial comes as opinion […]
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(Age) A law allowing authorities to keep convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika behind bars at the end of his jail sentence has been upheld by Australia’s highest court. The terror plotter was sentenced to 15 years in prison in February 2009 for […]
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(BBC) An Iranian man who steered a group of migrants across the English Channel in a “dangerously overcrowded” small boat has been jailed for two years. Sadrallah Bahador, 35, was picked up by a Border Force vessel from a rigid-hulled inflatable boat […]
(BBC) A man from north London who moved to Syria has appeared in court accused of sharing Islamic State group videos. Stefan Aristidou, 27 and originally from Enfield, is accused of texting videos of beheading and executions. He was arrested at Heathrow […]
(AL.com) An Islamic group has sued the Alabama Department of Corrections for not allowing an imam, a Muslim clergy, into the death row chamber to pray with an inmate at his execution. [Yusef] Maisonet, an imam who volunteers to lead Islamic prayers […]
(Brussels Times) Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, who has been convicted for his role in a foiled terrorist attack, was given a 20-year prison sentence by the criminal court in Antwerp on Thursday. The Vienna-based official plotted to bomb a rally of the […]
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(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 […]
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