(AFP) A US soldier with links to neo-Nazis plotted to have Islamic extremists attack his unit in Turkey in hopes of sparking a new “10-year war” in the Middle East, the Justice Department charged Monday. An indictment unsealed in New York said […]
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(AFP) A Syrian doctor living in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of crimes against humanity in his country of origin, prosecutors said Monday in the latest German move against suspected war crimes in Syria. The suspect, identified as Alaa M., is […]
(AP) A former Chicago businessman imprisoned for aiding terrorist groups has been arrested in Los Angeles to face murder charges in India for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed more than 160 people, U.S. prosecutors said Friday. Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-born […]
(Brussels Times) A police officer in Brussels has been jailed for four years after prosecutors found he had acted as an informant for the brother of a man seen as the mastermind of the Brussels and Paris attacks. The 53-year-old officer with […]
(Free Lance-Star) The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has a lawsuit against Stafford County challenging “overly restrictive zoning regulations” that blocked the creation of a Muslim cemetery. The suit claims that the county is in violation of the Religious […]
(Democrat and Chronicle) A federal courtroom in Rochester next week will be the battleground for a constitutional tug-of-war as authorities try to keep jailed a man once imprisoned for terrorism crimes and who is now facing deportation. The hearing will test the […]
(AFP) France’s highest constitutional authority on Thursday ruled that it objected to a key part of new legislation that aims to fight hatred online but has also sparked controversy among critics as harming civil liberties. The Constitutional Council ruled that certain new […]
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(Courthouse News) Chatitze Molla Sali already knew that she’d won the right to inherit her Muslim husband’s full estate two years ago but she had to wait until Thursday to find out just how much the Greek government would have to pay […]
(AFP) Three teenagers have been charged in France after a high-school girl received death threats for an expletive-laden social media rant against Islam, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The case of 16-year-old Mila — who called Islam “a shitty religion” on an Instagram […]
(Breitbart) Sweden’s supreme administrative court has upheld an order for a Muslim youth group to repay government grants after it was ruled to not “respect the ideas of democracy.” The group Sveriges Unga Muslimer (SUM/Sweden’s Young Muslims) had initially been rejected for state […]
(Global News) Alleged ISIS recruiter Awso Peshdary has become the “don” of his Ottawa jail and was behind the assault of another inmate, according to allegations contained in court records obtained by Global News. The allegations surfaced in court after Peshdary, arrested […]
(Brussels Times) Over ten universities and university colleges in Belgium reaffirmed they will not impose a headscarf ban in class, despite the Constitutional Court recently ruling … that such a ban is allowed in higher education. At the start of June, the […]
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(Anadolu) The Belgian Association for the Prevention of Islamophobia (CCIB) reacted early Saturday to a constitutional opinion that said wearing headscarves could be banned in colleges. CCIB Director Mustafa Chairi told Anadolu Agency a court in Brussels asked for the opinion of […]
(IPT) The New York media is titillated, mystified and horrified all at the same time. Why did two seemingly promising young lawyers allegedly carry out a Molotov cocktail attack on [a] New York Police Department police car? How is it possible that […]
(Tirana Times) The District Court of Tirana decided the extradition of Takijistani national Komron Zukhurov to Germany on Friday, who is accused of being part of a terrorist cell in the country. Albanian authorities arrested a 24-year-old Tajikistani national in April, after […]
(AP) A court in western Germany has convicted a 39-year-old man of providing support to Islamist groups in Syria. The Duesseldorf regional court on Friday sentenced the German-Tunisian defendant, whose name wasn’t released for privacy reasons, to five years in prison. Judges […]
(NL Times) Amsterdam Pride was one of the targets of a terrorist attack foiled when the authorities arrested six men from Arnhem in September [2018], according to an email read in the trial against the six suspects on Friday, De Gelderlander reports. […]
(Global News) An Ontario man accused of leaving Canada with his wife a year ago to join the Islamic State terrorist group was denied bail in a decision handed down by Thursday. Ikar Mao, a 22-year-old from Guelph, Ont., was charged on […]
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(ABC-Australia) An Adelaide woman acquitted of being an Islamic State member has never trained with the terror group, can no longer travel to IS-controlled strongholds in Syria and wants to use her second chance “wisely,” the Federal Court has heard. Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif, […]
(Dutch News) The trial of six men said to have been planning a major terrorist attack in the Netherlands began in Rotterdam on Wednesday. The six were arrested after a major police undercover operation in September 2018 but the man police claim […]
(ABC-Australia) An Adelaide woman who was acquitted of being a member of Islamic State believed she had an “influence” over the timing of a terror attack at a Kenyan police station in 2016, the Federal Court has heard. Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif, 25, spent […]
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(BBC) Survivors of the Manchester Arena attack are taking legal action after losing their bid to be represented at the public inquiry into the bombing. More than 40 people who were injured in the 2017 attack are calling for the decision to […]
(WPRI) A Warwick man who was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for conspiring to support ISIS and conspiring to commit an act of terrorism is asking for compassionate release. Nicholas Rovinski, now 29, plotted to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller back […]
(Free Lance-Star) The All Muslim Association of America filed a federal lawsuit Monday claiming Stafford County violated its religious rights by blocking its plans for a cemetery off Garrisonville Road. The lawsuit calls the county’s decision to revise its cemetery ordinance in […]
(AP) A federal appeals court on Monday ordered a lower court to toss out legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s 3-year-old ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim countries, finding that a judge misinterpreted a Supreme Court ruling that found the ban has […]
(Free Beacon) A former Obama administration intelligence official who worked in both the Departments of State and Defense has guaranteed bail for a human rights lawyer accused of firebombing a police vehicle in New York City. The former official, Salmah Rizvi, told […]
(Arizona Republic) A local Islamic group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court against Scottsdale Community College and one of its professors for teaching material that it says condemns Islam. A student and the Arizona chapter of the Council [on] American-Islamic […]
(AP) A Florida woman was sentenced Friday to five years and 10 months in federal prison for attempting to send cellphones to the Middle East to be used as bomb detonators by the Islamic State terrorist group. Alison Marie Sheppard, 35, of […]
(National-UAE) Two lawyers representing an Oxford professor accused of rape are under investigation after it emerged that they had spoken with his alleged victims. French legal authorities are examining the actions of the two men who each contacted one of Tariq Ramadan’s […]
(AP) A Florida man is charged with providing material support to the Islamic State extremist group, including attempting to buy multiple weapons and scouting potential targets for an attack in the Tampa Bay area, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. A criminal complaint charges […]
(Breitbart) A French judge has dropped terrorism charges against two men who were arrested in connection to a 2017 attack on Paris’s Orly airport, stating there were doubts about a terrorist motive. The attacker, 39-year-old Ziyed Ben Belgacem, was shot and killed during […]
(NL Times) The convicted terrorist who killed four people and injured seven others in last year’s Utrecht tram shooting has been found additionally guilty of rape, the judiciary ruled on Wednesday. Gökmen T., who has been detained for life for his carrying […]
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(Reuters) An Italian Senate committee on Tuesday rejected a request by magistrates to investigate Matteo Salvini, head of the rightwing League party, for refusing a migrant rescue boat permission to land last year when he was interior minister. Salvini refused to allow […]
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(Deutsche Welle) Former “Islamic State” (IS) fighters who returned to Europe from conflicts in Iraq and Syria should be charged with war crimes along with terrorism, said a report released Saturday by the EU-backed “Genocide Network.” According to the network, many so-called […]
(BBC) A people smuggler who helped to bring people into the UK on dinghies has been jailed for nine years. Albanian national Vladimir Bardoshi, 36, led a gang that ferried illegal migrants across the Channel from France in dangerous conditions, police said. […]
(AFP) A Syrian doctor living in Germany is being investigated on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity at a military hospital in the war-torn country, a report in Spiegel magazine Friday said. Federal prosecutors suspect the man of beating and torturing men […]
(AP) A German woman suspected of joining the Islamic State group in Syria has been taken into custody in her homeland after being deported from Turkey. The suspect, identified only as Zeynep G. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested at […]
(Age) The brother of the man who killed restaurant owner Sisto Malaspina in the Bourke Street terror attack has been jailed for a decade over his own plan to kill New Year’s revellers in Federation Square in the name of Islamic State. […]
(AP) A Czech appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that convicted a former Prague Muslim leader of being part of a terror group and financing terrorism, sentencing him to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors said imam Samer Shehadeh helped […]
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