(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has filed an indictment with the Federal Criminal Court against two men accused of supporting and participating in the terror organisation “Islamic State” (IS). According to the indictment, the principal accused, a Swiss-Italian dual citizen domiciled […]
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(NL Times) The public prosecutor submitted a list of 29 suspected Dutch jihadists that it wants to bring back from Syria to the Netherlands to face justice, the Ministry of Justice and Security confirmed to NRC. That is a significant increase from […]
(CBC) The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has filed its legal challenge of Quebec’s controversial law that bars teachers and principals from wearing religious symbols. The legal challenge, filed Thursday by the law firm Power Law on behalf of the EMSB and parent commissioners […]
(Age) A Victorian schoolboy has been charged with stalking, harassing and threatening to kill a bullied Jewish schoolboy and the boy’s mother. The 16-year-old is accused of threatening a 12-year-old Jewish boy who was photographed kissing another boy’s shoe in a widely […]
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(CBC) Abdulahi Sharif was prepared to go to extraordinary lengths two years ago to cause as much chaos, destruction and death as possible on the streets of Edmonton, the crown said Wednesday in closing arguments. At Sharif’s attempted-murder trial, prosecutor Shelley Bykewich […]
(Palm Beach Post) Amid a wave of attacks on social media companies by far-right and conservative activists, a federal judge found Monday that firebrand and congressional hopeful Laura Loomer does not have grounds to sue a local Islamic advocacy group for her […]
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(Qatar Tribune) Three Iraqis went on trial in the northern German city of Hamburg on Monday in connection with the preparation of a serious attack that threatened the state and of illegally handling explosive substances. Two of the accused, both aged 23, […]
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(Oregonian) A federal appeals court panel has upheld the government’s placement of four people on the no-fly list, finding the basis for the decision “reasonably clear” and not vague as challenged. One or more of the four plaintiffs allegedly financed terrorists, trained […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has decided to extend the pre-trial detention of a man accused of supporting a criminal group, attempted murder and violating the law banning Islamic State. The man, a citizen of canton Vaud in western Switzerland, […]
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(AFP) French investigators have wrapped up their probe into the jihadist attacks that killed 130 people on a single day in Paris four years ago, prosecutors said Monday, paving the way for trial. Prosecutors will now have a month to present their […]
(Brussels Times) A family member of Mohamed Abrini, a key suspect in the Brussels and Paris terror attacks, has been convicted on terror charges and handed a suspended prison sentence. A criminal court in Liège handed Abrini’s cousin, an unidentified 24-year-old woman, […]
(Brisbane Times) A Queensland mother found guilty of arranging for her two daughters to have their genitals mutilated has had her appeal dismissed after failing to convince a court her children were unreliable witnesses. In February, the woman, who can’t be named […]
(AFP) An imam and three other men have been locked up by an Austrian court for running a religious group that recruited young men for Isis. The court in Graz, the capital of Styria state, sentenced the imam to seven years in […]
(Brussels Times) Four terrorist suspects have seen their pre-trial detention extended as part of the investigation into the 2015 Paris attacks, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. In the context of the investigation related to the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, […]
(VTDigger) A Muslim inmate suing top Department of Corrections officials over claims that prison food does not meet his religious dietary needs is pressing ahead to make his lawsuit a class action. Justin Russell has been engaged in a long-running battle in […]
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(AAP) A twice-convicted terrorist says he’s disgusted by his part in a plot to detonate bombs and behead people in Melbourne’s Federation Square three years ago. Abdullah Chaarani has told a Supreme Court pre-sentence hearing he has “realised what an idiot” he […]
(AP) A German-Algerian woman accused of membership of the Islamic State group and keeping three captive Yazidi women as slaves in Syria has gone on trial in Germany. Proceedings against the 21-year-old, identified only as Sarah O. in line with German privacy […]
(AAP) The convictions of three people for female genital mutilation in NSW will stand after Australia’s highest court ruled the practice is illegal in all its various forms. The ruling comes four years after the trio was convicted by a jury of […]
(Dutch News) Appeal court judges have agreed to delay the continuation of Geert Wilders’ trial for making discriminatory comments about Moroccans until December 9. Wilders’ lawyer had asked for a delay to give the defence more time to collect evidence of possible […]
(Bloomberg) The U.S. Supreme Court rejected what could have been a contentious high court showdown on the role of religion in public life. The justices turned down the appeal from a Christian former high school student that challenged, on First Amendment grounds, […]
(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s top court has upheld a decision to not renew the residence permit of an imam from Kosovo guilty of domestic abuse. The Federal Court on Tuesday upheld an earlier decision of the St Gallen court in eastern Switzerland where the man lives. […]
(Reuters) A French court on Monday handed down sentences of at least 25 years in jail for two women with ties to Islamist militants who made a failed attempt to set off a crude car bomb outside Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral three years […]
(BBC) A man who drove at cyclists and police officers outside Parliament has been jailed for life for attempted murder. Salih Khater, 30, of Highgate Street, Birmingham, aimed his car at members of the public before swerving towards the officers in Parliament […]
(NL Times) Jawed S., a 20-year-old man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam Central Station last year, was sentenced to 26 years in prison by the court in Amsterdam on Monday. He was convicted [of] two counts of attempted murder with […]
(National-UAE) An unprecedented trial of six women accused after a failed car bombing close to Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris sheds new light on the recruitment, manipulation and deployment of females by terrorists. The Paris court is also judging a major ISIS figure […]
(NL Times) The court has jurisdiction, the Public Prosecution Service is independent, there are ample grounds to convict PVV leader Geert Wilders of hate speech, and no reason to drop the case against him, the advocate general said on Friday in the […]
(Deutsche Welle) Greek authorities extradited an Iraqi man to Germany where he now faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and human trafficking, German prosecutors said on Friday. German officials identified the suspected “Islamic State” (IS) militant as Taha A.-J., in […]
(Yle) An Oulu court has slapped Finns Party lawmaker Sebastian Tynkkynen with a 50-day fine after convicting him on charges of ethnic agitation. The total fine amounts to slightly more than 4,000 euros. The conviction came over texts and images Tynkkynen posted […]
(Swiss Info) The office of the attorney general of Lucerne has opened an investigation into an Iraqi imam at the Dar Asalam mosque in the town of Kriens. The man is alleged to have advised followers to beat their wives if they […]
(CBC) NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said today that, if he’s elected prime minister, he’d have to get involved in Quebec’s controversial secularism law if it makes it all the way up to the Supreme Court. He also said this morning that he […]
(AP) An Islamic terrorist already serving a life prison term for a bombing in New York City was convicted Tuesday of multiple counts of attempted murder and assault stemming from a shootout with police three years ago. Ahmad Khan Rahimi, a U.S. […]
(Brussels Times) A former Islamic religion teacher accused of indecent assault will stand trial on Tuesday morning in the Brussels Criminal Court. The 53-year-old faces charges of indecent assault and harassment for unsolicited touching, an accusation made by a former student of […]
(AFP) A staffer at Paris police headquarters who stabbed four colleagues to death seems to have adhered to “a radical vision of Islam,” anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said Saturday. The assailant, a 45-year-old computer expert, had been in contact with members of […]
(Reuters) France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Saturday an investigation had detected signs of “latent radicalization” in an attacker who knifed four co-workers to death at police headquarters in Paris this week. The assailant, an IT worker at the headquarters, went on a […]
(Yle) The trial of Finns Party MP Sebastian Tynkkynen began on Thursday in the Oulu District Court. A lawmaker from the northwest municipality where the proceedings are being held, Tynkkynen is suspected of agitation against an ethnic group in a 2016 Facebook […]
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(CBC) The crown prosecutor in the trial of the Edmonton man charged in the Sept. 30, 2017, U-Haul truck attacks says she will be able to prove Abdulahi Sharif intentionally tried to kill five people that night. Sharif, 32, is accused of […]
(Morocco World News) The Paris prosecutor opened an investigation into Eric Zemmour’s remarks at the “Convention of the Right” on Saturday, September 28. Zemmour’s speech attacking immigrants, whom he qualified as “colonizers,” and “Islamization in the streets” has led to the opening […]
(Jerusalem Post) A German court in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday sentenced a radical Islamist Palestinian asylum seeker to a 10-year prison term for attempting to murder judges and prosecutors. Haidar A., the extremist Palestinian, had previously been sentenced in […]
(Swiss Info) The Federal Court has confirmed a one-month custodial sentence handed down to a 17-year-old boy charged with violating Swiss terror and gun laws. At the end of June, the Geneva prosecutor for minors initiated a criminal probe against the 17-year-old […]
(AFP) The French authorities have expanded an investigation against Tariq Ramadan, a leading Islamic scholar already charged in France with raping two women, to include evidence from two more alleged victims, judicial sources said Sunday. Ramadan, a Swiss national, 57, has already […]
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(CBC) Quebec’s secularism law, which bans some civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work, is facing a new legal challenge. Lawyers representing a multi-faith group filed a motion Thursday in Quebec Superior Court that argues the law violates constitutional protections of gender […]
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