(AFP) A French court on Wednesday jailed a former Syrian Islamist rebel spokesman to 10 years for his role in atrocities committed in Syria’s civil war in the country’s first universal justice case. Majdi Nema, a former spokesman of the rebel group […]
(AP) A federal judge said the Trump administration’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil because of his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University likely violates the Constitution. In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil […]
(Detroit News) A Dearborn man has pleaded guilty to a weapons offense after allegedly making antisemitic, racist threats at a Bloomfield Hills synagogue in late 2022. Hassan Chokr, 37, pleaded guilty Tuesday to being a felon in possession of a firearm, federal […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Syrian man who allegedly knifed three people to death at a street festival in the western city of Solingen last August entered a guilty plea as his trial began in Düsseldorf on Tuesday. Issa Al H., 27, told the […]
(Global News) Canadian Jewish groups are questioning why B.C. prosecutors have taken more than a year to decide whether a woman who made explosive comments at a Vancouver rally last year should face hate crime charges. Vancouver police arrested Charlotte Kates and […]
(AP) A Swedish man was indicted Tuesday in connection with the killing by the Islamic State group of a Jordanian pilot whose plane went down in Syria on Christmas Eve 2014, prosecutors said. The 26-year-old Jordanian, 1st Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, was taken […]
(AFP) An alleged former Syrian prison guard has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity under former president Bashar al-Assad, prosecutors said Tuesday. The man, identified only as Fahad A., is accused of “acts of killing, torture and […]
(Reuters) An Iranian national pleaded guilty to participating in the high-profile 2019 Baltimore, Maryland, ransomware attack, among others, and to causing tens of millions of dollars in losses and disrupted services, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Sina Gholinejad, 37, faces […]
(Deutsche Welle) The charges against the four defendants, all Russian nationals, are serious. Appearing at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg on Monday, they will be facing accusations of being members of a foreign criminal organization and of supporting a foreign terrorist […]
(Deutsche Welle) The man accused of a mass stabbing at a festival in the western German city of Solingen is due to face court in the North Rhine-Westphalia capital of Dusseldorf. Federal prosecutors have charged Syrian Issa Al H. with three counts […]
(Brussels Times) Suspects in terrorism-related cases in Belgium are increasingly younger, according to the Federal Prosecution’s annual report for 2024 released on Monday. Last year, over 70 individuals were summoned in federal cases in Belgium on charges of committing terrorist crimes. The […]
(BBC) Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is “pleased” the man who tried to kill him in a knife attack in 2022 has received the maximum possible prison sentence. Hadi Matar, 27, was jailed for 25 years earlier this month for […]
(Daily Caller) Following through on a campaign pledge to crack down on the massive anti-Israel student protests that swept universities across the United States in 2024, President Donald Trump has detained an increasing number of foreign student protesters accused of harassing Jewish […]
(Toronto Sun) Canadian Jewish groups are calling on the B.C. Prosecution Service to follow through with charges against a Canadian terrorist group leader, particularly after recent social media posts glorifying the gunman who killed two Israeli embassy workers. Charlotte Kates, a leader […]
(Jerusalem Post) A Jewish protester was arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police for a placard he held mocking the eliminated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Telegraph revealed on Friday. The anonymous man was detained and charged last September for the cartoon, which featured […]
(Politico) The head of the Council of Europe on Saturday pushed back against a call by nine EU countries to make it easier to expel migrants who commit crime. COE Secretary-General Alain Berset warned that courts must not be “weaponized” for political […]
(BBC) A barber who admitted sending propaganda videos from the organisation calling itself Islamic State (IS) to a WhatsApp group has been jailed. Liverpool Crown Court heard one of the videos Mohammed Hamad shared in January 2023 was of three prisoners being […]
(DPA) German authorities have arrested a man suspected of being a member of Yemen’s Houthi militia, federal prosecutors said on Thursday. The suspect, a Yemeni national who was taken into custody in the southern town of Dachau, just outside Munich, is believed […]
(AP) Leaders of 9 European Union countries say they want a reinterpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights in order to better tackle irregular migration to the continent and increase deportations. The leaders said in an open letter made public in […]
(NL Times) Two men attempted to attack a suspect during a hearing at the court in Utrecht on Thursday. Officers were able to restrain the two men before they got to Mohamed B., who is accused of destroying 117 graves at the […]
(AFP) A Syrian held in Germany over a weekend knife attack that seriously wounded four people allegedly told the police officers who arrested him that he had jihadist beliefs, media reported Wednesday. The suspect, identified only as Mahmoud M., 35, was arrested […]
(Brussels Times) A court in Mechelen sentenced an Afghan man on Tuesday to a four-year suspended prison term for his involvement in the activities of two terrorist organisations. The man was found guilty of creating social media accounts for members of the […]
(Sky News) An illegal immigrant who was involved in smuggling more than 3,000 others into Europe has been sentenced to 25 years in jail. Egyptian national Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid, who arrived in the UK in a small boat in October 2022, […]
(BBC) Britain and Iran have summoned each other’s envoys after three Iranians were charged with spying in the UK. Three Iranian men were arrested on 3 May and appeared in court in London on Saturday on charges of spying for the Islamic […]
(BBC) An alleged Hamas supporter who reportedly made antisemitic comments has been jailed for nine months for attempting to enter the UK illegally on a small boat. Abu Wadee, 33, also known as Mosab Abdulkarim Al-Gassas, pleaded guilty on Monday at Canterbury […]
(Helsinki Times) Dozens of forced marriages are uncovered in Finland each year, many involving underage girls and some occurring within Finland’s borders. Authorities say such cases often remain hidden and are only revealed when victims feel safe enough to speak. The Finnish […]
(AFP) A 28-year-old man was remanded in custody in Denmark on Monday on suspicions of purchasing drones to be used in a Hamas “terrorist attack,” Danish intelligence said Monday. Flemming Drejer, head of operations at Denmark’s PET intelligence service, said in a […]
(BBC) Three alleged Iranian spies have appeared in court charged with targeting UK-based journalists so that “serious violence” could be inflicted on them. Mostafa Sepahvand, 39, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 44, and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori, 55, all from London, appeared in custody […]
(AP) A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison. Hadi Matar, 27, stood quietly as the judge […]
(European Conservative) A Danish court on Friday for the first time meted out a verdict in the first criminal case using the country’s new law prohibiting “improper treatment of a religious text.” The court sentenced Islamism critic Rasmus Paludan and one of […]
(Toronto Sun) Days before the RCMP picked up a Kitchener man believed to be planning to travel abroad to join an international terror organization, he was arrested at Pearson International Airport for allegedly making death threats to police officers, the Toronto Sun […]
(GB News) A Labour MP has not ruled out the government allowing Shamima Begum to return to the UK to “face justice” but admitted he would prefer her to be prosecuted in Syria. Speaking on GB News, Peter Swallows addressed the controversial […]
(Yabiladi) Expelled in January 2022, Moroccan imam Mohamed Toujgani is now allowed to return to Belgium after the Court of Cassation rejected the Belgian state’s appeal against the decision to grant him Belgian nationality. His initial request — filed in 2019 to […]
(Global News) A Yemeni arrested as he was allegedly trying to leave Canada to join a Middle East terrorist group has been released on bail to live under house arrest at a Toronto mosque. A copy of an Ontario judge’s release order […]
(National-UAE) The UK has not yet “successfully” prosecuted former ISIS fighters’ war crimes committed in Syria and Iraq, despite the possible involvement of British citizens, a report has found. The terrorist group was accused of genocide by the UK government for the […]
(Jewish Insider) A Richmond, Va., judge has issued a new court order ruling that a pro-Palestinian advocacy group with alleged ties to Hamas must finally turn over closely guarded financial documents sought in an ongoing investigation brought by Virginia’s attorney general. The […]
(Global News) An Islamic State financier from Toronto has admitted he used online fundraising platforms to raise money he sent overseas for the terrorist group’s fighters. At the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Monday, Khalilullah Yousuf pleaded guilty to terrorist financing […]
(AFP) A former spokesman for a Syrian Islamist rebel group, on trial in France over alleged crimes during Syria’s civil war, sought to present himself as a “whistleblower” on Monday. Majdi Nema — also known by the nom-de-guerre Islam Alloush — has […]
(Reuters) A French pro-Palestinian protest group is contesting a government decision to shut it down, saying the move was politically motivated and based on “false” arguments as part of a wider crackdown on the movement for Palestinian rights. Urgence Palestine (Emergency Palestine), […]
(BBC) An art expert who has worked on the BBC’s Bargain Hunt has admitted failing to report a series of high-value art sales to a man suspected of financing the proscribed group Hezbollah. Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, pleaded guilty to eight counts under […]
(BBC) A teenage Muslim convert who posted Islamic State videos online because he “wanted to join the trend” has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Leo Walby, 19, from Swanley, Kent, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey last […]
(GB News) Prosecutors have removed references to “the institution of Islam” from charges against a man who burned a Koran in central London. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has amended a charge against Hamit Coskun, 50, who set fire to a copy […]
(KERA) The U.S. Department of Justice is opening an investigation into a proposed Muslim development of a North Texas mosque. Sen. John Cornyn sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon last month asking them to […]
(Brown Daily Herald) On Monday, lawyers from Muslim Advocates and Marzouk Law submitted an amended lawsuit challenging the March deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh. She was deported to Lebanon despite holding a valid H-1B visa and a federal judge’s […]
(Deutsche Welle) This Friday, many eyes will be on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, for a historic trial: Two men are accused of “improper treatment of a religious scripture.” They are accused of having burned a copy of the […]
(Free Beacon) A Palestinian activist at Columbia University spooked neighbors in his small Vermont town by bragging about his hatred of Jews and his background of building weapons for terrorist groups, according to interviews and 2015 police records obtained by the Washington […]
(Washington Post) A Virginia man who was convicted of sending at least $185,000 to the Islamic State’s coffers as the terrorist organization struggled to rebuild its depleted operations in Syria was sentenced Wednesday to more than 30 years in prison after a […]
(NY Times) A military judge on Monday postponed the trial in Al Qaeda’s 2000 bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole until next year to give defense lawyers more time to prepare for the death penalty case. The judge, Col. Matthew S. […]
(Global News) A Yemeni accused of trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist group appeared in court north of Toronto on Thursday for a bail hearing. Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee, 32, was arrested by RCMP national security officers on April 19 […]
(Editors) Harvard Law Review, which the federal secretary of education announced this week is the subject of a discrimination investigation, is awarding a $65,000 fellowship to the student who faced misdemeanor criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student during an anti-Israel campus protest. […]
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