Children & Teens
Mother jailed for 11 years in first British FGM conviction (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Academics & Education
Zurich: Muslim father fined after kids fail to attend Christmas concert rehearsal
(Local) A Zurich appeals court has upheld a fine for a Muslim man who chose not to send his three sons to a rehearsal for a Christmas concert. In its ruling, the court stated that the children’s obligatory attendance at the rehearsal […]
Legal
German prosecutors charge couple in ricin plot
(AP) Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a 30-year-old Tunisian and his 43-year-old German wife with preparing a severe act of violence over a plot to use the toxin ricin to carry out a biological attack in Germany. Sief Allah H. and Yasmin […]
Law Enforcement
Number of people in jail for terrorism offences falls for first time since 2013 (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Tommy Robinson to face fresh contempt of court proceedings (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Frenchman convicted of Belgium Jewish museum murders
(AFP) A jury found Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche guilty Thursday of the “terrorist murders” of four people at Brussels’ Jewish museum, in the first case of a Syria jihad veteran to stage an attack in Europe. Nemmouche, 33, now faces a life sentence […]
Legal
Isis follower jailed for terror plot to drive van into London shoppers (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Sajid Javid can deport mother of FGM risk girl, judge decides
(BBC) The home secretary cannot be barred from deporting a failed asylum seeker whose daughter would be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) if taken abroad, a senior judge decided. The High Court heard the woman, who has links to Bahrain […]
Interfaith
Suspect in Belgium Jewish museum attack claims innocence
(AP) A suspected jihadi insisted Tuesday that he’s innocent of terrorism charges over the 2014 killing of four people at Belgium’s Jewish museum, as the jury in his trial prepared to consider its verdict. Weeks after telling the Brussels criminal court that […]
Crime
Muslim activist guilty of assaulting pro-Israel activist in Australia Yemini said that the primary reason he filed a complaint against Ekermawi was 'to give this man a taste of his own medicine.'
(Jerusalem Post) A Muslim activist in Australia named Sam Ekermawi who has filed numerous racial vilification and discrimination complaints against prominent Australians was found guilty on Friday of assaulting pro-Israel activist Avi Yemini during a scuffle outside a courthouse in Sydney in […]
Legal
Russian Islamist charged with bomb plot in Germany
(AFP) German prosecutors have formally charged a Russian Islamist and acquaintance of Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri with plotting an explosives attack, prosecutors said Tuesday. The suspect, identified as Magomed-Ali C., 31, had planned an attack with Tunisian Amri, who went […]
Government & Politics
Judge: Muslim man’s suit over border detention can proceed
(AP) A Muslim man can proceed with his lawsuit alleging he was subjected to low-grade torture when U.S. Customs agents detained him at the border, a judge has ruled. Government lawyers had asked the judge to toss out the lawsuit filed by […]
Citizenship
Woman who joined Islamic State starts fight to return to US
(AP) An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State lost a first round on Monday in a legal fight to return to the U.S. with her toddler son, even as a judge seemed to support at least one argument made by her […]
Immigration
English Channel migrant smugglers jailed by French court
(AFP) A French court on Friday jailed two Iraqis and one Iranian man for organising illegal migrant boat journeys across the English Channel. The 32-year-old Iraqi, considered the group leader, received an 18-month sentence from the court in Boulogne, on the northern […]
Legal
Point Pleasant man sentenced for plotting bomb attack in New York
(Asbury Park Press) A Point Pleasant man was sentenced Friday to 16 years in federal prison for plotting to use a pressure cooker to commit terrorism in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State group. Gregory Lepsky, 22, had pleaded […]
Beards
Islamic inmate sues Arkansas prisons over combined religious service
(Arkansas Times) The Council on American-Islamic Relations has sued the state Correction Department for requiring inmates to attend combined religious services for three faiths — Islam, Nation of Islam and Nation of Gods and Earths. CAIR and Douglas Laycock of the University […]
Government & Politics
French prosecutors want Le Pen tried over tweet
(AFP) Prosecutors have called for French far-right leader Marine Le Pen to be tried for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group, judicial sources said Friday. This could hike further pressure on Le Pen, 50, who already faces legal […]
Government & Politics
Court finds human rights violation under UK counter-terrorism legislation ECHR recognizes that UK counter-terrorism laws have subsequently been amended.
(Politico) A European court has ruled that U.K. border officials violated Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights — which guarantees citizens the right to respect for private and family life — when they stopped a French national at a British […]
Law Enforcement
Ninth Circuit orders new look at mosque surveillance case
(Courthouse News) A Ninth Circuit panel resurrected a class action Thursday challenging the use of an FBI informant to infiltrate several Los Angeles and Orange County mosques and secretly collect information on Muslims for more than a year. In its long-awaited ruling, […]
Children & Teens
Family devastated by Belgian ruling not to bring back Islamic State children
(Reuters) A Belgian court’s decision to overturn a ruling forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria has left their family devastated. The grandmother of the six children, aged from 11 […]
Christians
Man threatened Muslim woman because she was dressed in western clothing (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
Toronto man sentenced to 4 years for trying to get into Syria to join ISIL
(Canadian Press) A Toronto man who tried to join Islamic State militants in Syria was sentenced to just over four years in prison on Thursday after a judge found he had taken responsibility for his actions and abandoned his radical views. Pamir […]
Children & Teens
European court rules in favor of child migrant, fines France
(AP) The European Court of Human Rights ordered France to pay 15,000 euros ($17,000) to an Afghan migrant for failing to protect him when, as a 12-year-old, he lived alone in a makeshift migrant camp in Calais. Thursday’s decision is limited to […]
Interfaith
Defence sums up in Brussels Jewish museum terror trial
(AFP) Lawyers for a Frenchman accused of murdering four people in a terrorist attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels insisted Thursday their client was not the killer, as his trial nears its end. Defence lawyers said Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, was not […]
Children & Teens
Belgium wins appeal against repatriation of Islamic State families
(Reuters) Belgium has won an appeal against a judge’s order forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria, a court said on Wednesday. A judge ruled last year that the country […]
Law Enforcement
‘We need to get ready’: RCMP planning for return of Canadian ISIS members
(Global News) The RCMP is preparing for the return of at least a dozen Canadians detained in Syria amidst the collapse of the so-called Islamic State, a senior law enforcement official has told Global News. The capture of suspected Canadian ISIS members, […]
Clothing
Muslim detainees say ICE interferes with their religious practices
(Courthouse News) Five Muslims accused immigration officials at a Florida detention facility of denying them access to the Quran and restricting prayer in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. “Glades County Detention Center is brazenly violating fundamental religious rights for no discernible reason […]
Health & Medicine
Wisconsin man who tried to join ISIS is sentenced to seven years in prison
(Journal Sentinel) A Milwaukee man who wanted to join the Islamic State was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in federal prison. Federal prosecutors called Jason Ludke “a true danger” and recommended a 20-year sentence followed by a lifetime of federal supervision, but […]
Deradicalization
Crown seeks six-year sentence for Toronto man who tried to join ISIS, assaulted witness
(Global News) A Toronto man who travelled to Turkey in 2014 to join the so-called Islamic State pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting the witness who reported him to police. Appearing in a Toronto courtroom, Pamir Hakimzadah admitted to the 2015 attack on […]
Islamic Law
Melbourne man sentenced over plot to support Muslim militants in the Philippines
(ABC-Australia) A Melbourne man who was part of a group planning to sail to the southern Philippines to work with Muslim militants to overthrow the government has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison. Shayden Thorne is one of […]
Citizenship
Judge to consider return for woman who joined Islamic State
(AP) A federal judge in Washington has agreed to move quickly on a lawsuit filed by a former Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State and wants to return to the United States. The family of 24-year-old Hoda Muthana filed suit last […]
Beards
Council was right to ban beard and cut claimant’s benefits, court says
(Dutch News) Amersfoort city council was within its rights to reduce the welfare benefits of a man who refused to shave his beard while following training to work with asbestos, administrative appeal court judges said on Tuesday. The man needed to shave […]
Legal
Oakland man gets 15 years after boasting of plans to kill for Islamic State
(SF Chronicle) A 23-year-old Oakland man was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Tuesday after boasting about plotting a series of Islamic State-inspired attacks around the Bay Area. Amer Sinan Alhaggagi — described by prosecutors as a grave terrorist […]
Animals
Meat slaughtered without stunning animals not organic: EU court
(AFP) Halal meat from animals slaughtered by religious ritual without having first been stunned cannot be labelled organic, on animal welfare grounds, a top European Union court ruled Tuesday. The way the meat is slaughtered “fails to observe the highest animal welfare […]
Government & Politics
Macron says French Islamic State detainees should be tried where they face charges
(Reuters) France’s President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that French Islamic State detainees in Iraq and Syria should be tried in the countries where they face charges and that France would ask for potential death penalties to be converted to life sentences. […]
Interfaith
Prosecutors slam Jewish museum suspect’s ‘indecent’ silence at trial
(AFP) Prosecutors on Monday poured scorn on the “indecent” silence of a Frenchman accused of shooting dead four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels as they began their closing summary. French national Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, could face life in prison if […]
Government & Politics
Iraq to prosecute 13 French IS fighters seized in Syria: president
(AFP) Iraqi courts will prosecute 13 French citizens captured while fighting for the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, Iraq’s President Barham Saleh said Monday. The fighters, who were turned over to Iraq after being seized by Syrian Kurdish forces, “will be […]
Citizenship
Sweden debates fate of returned foreign fighters
(Local) None of the 150 Swedish citizens who have returned home after joining the terror group Islamic State have been convicted of crimes committed while abroad. While some European countries are investigating all returning foreign fighters, Sweden is not. But the country’s […]
Citizenship
Pompeo rejects legal claim by ISIS wife: ‘She’s a non-citizen terrorist — she’s not coming back’
(Fox) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking to “Fox News Sunday,” forcefully rejected a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration this week by the father of an Alabama woman who left the U.S. to join the Islamic State group, saying in no […]
Legal
Public prosecutor pins evidence hopes on IS payroll information
(Dutch News) The Dutch public prosecution department has payroll lists with the names of people who worked for IS, including jihadis who have returned to the Netherlands, the AD said on Friday. The department is using the lists, which cover the period […]
Government & Politics
Amsterdam CS attacker will ‘do worse’ if gov’t doesn’t act against Wilders
(NL Times) The man suspected of committing a terrorist attack at Amsterdam Central Station in August intends to do worse if the Dutch government does not intervene against PVV leader Geert Wilders, he said during a proforma hearing on Friday. He also intends to deal with Wilders himself, […]
Crime
Muslim convert screams ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he is jailed for encouraging terrorism on Facebook (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Judge orders feds to list private groups receiving watchlist
(AP) A federal magistrate on Friday ordered the government to disclose to him and to plaintiffs’ attorneys a list of private organizations that receive access to the government’s list of known or suspected terrorists. Judge John Anderson issued the ruling at the […]
Children & Teens
Swiss court upholds sentence in genital mutilation case
(Reuters) A ban on female genital mutilation extends to cases where the ritual cutting was performed in another country prior to the perpetrator coming to Switzerland, the nation’s highest court said on Friday, upholding a Somali woman’s conviction last year. The woman, […]
Children & Teens
Up to 5 years in prison demanded for performing exorcism on 9 y.o. boy
(NL Times) The public prosecutor demanded up to five years in prison against three adults who tried to perform an exorcism on a 9-year-old boy from Venlo. The boy’s mother and a couple she’s friends with tried to expel a jinn — […]
Citizenship
Alabama woman who joined Islamic State sues to return to US
(AP) The father of an Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State in Syria filed suit against the Trump administration Thursday in an effort to allow her return to the United States. Ahmed Ali Muthana argues in the suit filed in federal […]
Legal
Newcastle man appears in court charged with inciting an atrocity in Germany Fatah Mohammed Abdullah was charged with inciting two people to commit a terror attack in Germany
(Newcastle Chronicle) A Newcastle man accused of plotting a terrorist bomb attack in the UK has appeared in court charged with inciting an atrocity in Germany. Fatah Mohammed Abdullah, 33, was arrested in December last year after he allegedly bought “explosive pre-cursors” […]
Government & Politics
Muslim group seeks congressional probe on terror watchlist
(AP) A Muslim civil rights group called for a congressional investigation Wednesday after its lawsuit revealed that the U.S. government has shared access to parts of its terrorist watchlist with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities. The Council on […]
Citizenship
Why it’s so hard to revoke the citizenship of terrorists
(NY Post) What allegiance does the United States owe to our enemies when they are our own citizens? More than we should. The question arises due to the case of Hoda Muthana, a young woman born in Alabama, the daughter of Yemeni […]
Government & Politics
Feds share watchlist with 1,400 private groups
(AP) The federal government has acknowledged that it shares its terrorist watchlist with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities, prompting concerns from civil libertarians that those mistakenly placed on the list could face a wide variety of hassles in […]