(BBC) A former British soldier accused of being a spy for Iran twice contacted MI6 to offer his services as a double agent, a court has heard. Daniel Khalife, now 23, denies gathering information for Iran, compiling a list of special forces […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of passing secret information to Iran gathered the names of service personnel, including those in special forces, a court has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, is separately accused of escaping from Wandsworth Prison last year by strapping […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of escaping from Wandsworth prison last year made contact with Iranian security forces before telling MI6 he wanted to work as a double agent, a trial has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, has gone on trial on […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist and childhood friend of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has lost his bid to be released from prison. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 31, faced a parole review after being recalled to prison for breaching licence conditions in 2021. Abdallah, from […]
(Fox) A Pakistani national with alleged close ties to Iran pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges accusing him of plotting to have U.S. politicians assassinated on U.S. soil. Asif Merchant, also known as “Asif Raza Merchant,” pleaded not guilty at his […]
(AP) Austrian security forces carried out raids against 72 alleged Islamic extremists this week ahead of the [23rd] anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, citing the potential for copycat violence on the date of the plane hijackings that killed […]
(Olive Press) Spanish authorities have deported a Chechen national who was suspected of being the head of a jihadist cell planning attacks in Spain. German Bagaev was arrested in January in a Barcelona prison while already serving time for shooting two people […]
(GB News) An associate of Anjem Choudary received £1,300 in compensation after he complained about a prison strip search. Convicted terrorist Mizanur Rahman, 41, accepted an out-of-court settlement over the incident at Belmarsh prison that he described as being tantamount to “human […]
(Chicago Sun-Times) A man who plotted to detonate a massive car bomb outside a Chicago bar has been resentenced to 27 years in prison after a federal appeals [court] found his initial sentence too lenient. Adel Daoud was handed the new prison […]
(NY Times) A former Syrian military official who ran one of the country’s most notorious prisons and is accused of torturing and killing political dissidents has been arrested in Los Angeles, according to a court filing. Federal law enforcement agents detained the […]
(AL.com) Alabama won’t conduct an autopsy on a death row inmate after his lethal-injection execution next week. The inmate had sued the state to block the post-execution autopsy because of his religious beliefs as a Muslim. “No autopsy will be performed on […]
(AL.com) A national Muslim civil rights group on Thursday urged Alabama officials to abide by Alabama death row inmate Keith Edmund Gavin’s wish that an autopsy not be performed on his body after next week’s lethal-injection execution of him for the 1998 […]
(NCA NewsWire) A man who made videos lighting fires and pledging himself to Islamic State has been placed in isolation in prison after authorities alleged he was radicalising other inmates. Aran Sherani, 22, was found guilty of doing acts in preparation for […]
(AL.com) Alabama death row inmate Keith Edmund Gavin says he doesn’t plan any last-minute appeals to stop his lethal injection execution next week, but he is asking state officials one thing: don’t conduct an autopsy on his body because of his religious […]
(AFP) An exiled Iranian opposition group and activists on Saturday slammed as shameful Sweden’s freeing in an apparent swap for two Swedes of a former Iranian official jailed over his role in the mass executions of dissidents in 1988. Hamid Noury, a […]
(AP) Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap Saturday that saw Tehran release a European Union diplomat and another man in exchange for an Iranian convicted in Stockholm of committing war crimes over his part in 1988 mass executions in the […]
(Age) A tool used to predict future terror offences is still being used by Home Affairs despite several expert reports and a Supreme Court judge deeming it “extremely poor” at assessing individuals’ risk of committing terror-related crimes. The “VERA-2R,” widely criticised by […]
(Age) Peter Dutton could be investigated by the national security watchdog after a Victorian Supreme Court judge found that under his watch as home affairs minister, the department failed to disclose scathing reports questioning an assessment tool used to detain terror cell […]
(Sky News) When three men were stabbed to death in Reading’s Forbury Gardens on Saturday, 20 June 2020, Nick Harborne instantly knew Khairi Saadallah was responsible. “Something inside me just went cold,” he told Sky News. The chief executive of the Reading […]
(BBC) The deaths of three men murdered by a man convicted under anti-terror laws in a Reading park were avoidable, an inquest has concluded. Khairi Saadallah killed James Furlong, David Wails, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in Forbury Gardens in June 2020. He was […]
(WBKO) A lawsuit filed in federal court in November 2023 against staff at the Warren County Regional Jail by a Muslim woman alleging deprivation of her religious rights has taken a new turn. The lawsuit alleges the woman was made to remove […]
(Reuters) An Italian appeals court refused on Wednesday to send a suspected Palestinian militant to Israel, saying he risked “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” if he was extradited. The man, named by the court as Anan Kamal Afif Yaeesh, 36, was one […]
(Radio NZ) A group of officers who were surveilling LynnMall terror attacker Ahamed Samsudeen say they did not have the right equipment to prevent the attack. Samsudeen was shot 12 times by police after injuring seven people in a knife attack at […]
(Anadolu) Amnesty International expressed “deep concern” Monday over the possible extradition to Israel of a Palestinian man who is a legal resident of Italy. Anan Ya’eesh, originally from Tulkarem in the West Bank, was arrested in January for allegedly being part of […]
(El País) Spain has changed in the last two decades. So has the jihadist threat. Ever since 10 backpack bombs exploded on four Madrid commuter trains on March 11, 2004, killing 192 people and wounding nearly 2,000, security forces have carried out […]
(Radio NZ) Authorities’ failure to provide the LynnMall terror attacker with religious support in custody may have contributed to his radicalisation and later violence, a lawyer for his family says. Ahamed Samsudeen seriously injured five people in a stabbing at a West […]
(Toronto Star) Convicted Toronto terrorist Rehab Dughmosh has again refused to sign a peace bond that would have allowed her to go free. Instead, Dughmosh will spend another six months in jail. Prosecutors requested the unusual terrorism peace bond over fears that […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist who radicalised the Manchester Arena bomber has been granted a private hearing to decide if he can be released from prison. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 30, was first jailed in 2016 for helping others go to Syria to join the […]
(GB News) A British jihadist who went to fight in Syria has been given the green light to leave prison. Mohammed Nahin Ahmed, one of the UK’s most dangerous terrorists, was sentenced a decade ago after [pleading] guilty to joining a jihadist […]
(Toronto Star) There is reason to fear that a convicted Toronto terrorist may commit a new terrorist attack, a judge found Thursday, ordering Rehab Dughmosh to sign a legal document promising not to violate any laws for the next two years. It […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court has handed seven-and-a-half-year prison terms to two prisoners jailed for terror offences for writing to other inmates encouraging them to stick to jihadist ideology, court documents showed Tuesday. In a ruling dated February 12, the Audiencia Nacional […]
(European Conservative) On Wednesday, February 7th, French Justice Minister Éric [Dupond]-Moretti announced the arrival on French soil of the terrorist Salah Abdeslam, who until then had been imprisoned in Belgium, to serve an “irreducible life imprisonment” (perpétuité incompressible) — a penalty that […]
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(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life in jail over the 2015 Paris jihadist attacks, was removed from his Belgian prison cell on Wednesday and transferred back to France. Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the Islamic State group cell that […]
(WZTV) Rutherford County has settled a lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman who was required to remove her hijab for a booking photo. Sophia Johnston was booked on a charge in August of last year that has since been dismissed. During the […]
(BBC) A killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park joined a terrorist group in Libya a decade before moving to the UK, an inquest has heard. Khairi Saadallah killed James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, […]
(Detroit News) The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday it plans to sue the Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard’s office for the alleged “forcible removal” of a Dearborn woman’s hijab when she was detained last year in the […]
(NY Times) A federal judge on Friday ordered that a New York man be freed from prison because a “most unsavory” government informant had duped him into an “F.B.I.-orchestrated conspiracy” focused on attacking an upstate Air Force base and Jewish sites in […]
(Toronto Star) Convicted Toronto terrorist Rehab Dughmosh — who attacked a Scarborough Canadian Tire in 2017 with a golf club and a knife, shouting “This is for ISIS” — continued to express her solidarity with the Islamic State terror group and a […]
(AAP) A man accused of terrorism-related offences will again be granted bail despite facing allegations that he breached the conditions of his release. Ahmed Luqman Talib was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in Victoria in March 2021, then aged 31, and […]
(Yabiladi) A 40-year-old Moroccan who lived in Italy was expelled from the territory for planning a terrorist attack, Italian-language daily newspaper Il Giornale reported on Wednesday. The man in question has reportedly been radicalized while detained in prison. The Italian Interior Ministry […]
(Detroit News) A Muslim woman from Grand Rapids is suing Kent County officials over the “forcible removal” of her religious head covering for [a] booking photo and releasing it to the public after her arrest in May. The Michigan chapter of the […]
(ABC-Australia) Convicted Australian terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika has been released into the community after spending nearly two decades in prison. On Tuesday morning, Victorian Supreme Court justice Elizabeth Hollingworth granted Benbrika’s release on an extended supervision order for 12 months. His movements […]
(BBC) A man who planned a gun attack at central London’s Hyde Park has been jailed for at least 16 years. Edward Little, 22, had intended to kill Christian preacher Hatun Tash after travelling from Brighton to the capital on 23 September […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is appealing the decision of the Rotterdam court in the case of Utrecht tram shooter Gökmen T. regarding his misconduct in prison. The OM said in a press release published on Wednesday that it [is] […]
(NL Times) The Rotterdam District Court found Gökmen T., who is currently serving a life sentence for an attack on a Utrecht tram in 2019, guilty of the attempted murder of a prison guard. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) had demanded an […]
(ABC-Australia) A 16-year-old schoolboy is now eligible to apply for parole after pleading guilty to multiple terrorism offences, including possessing “extremely graphic and quite disturbing” videos. The boy, who was aged 14 at the time of the offending and cannot be named […]
(ITV) A woman who helped smuggle mobile phones to her extremist brother in prison has been jailed for six months. Rahimah De Silva, 24, had also plotted with her brother, Denny De Silva, to transport sim cards and chargers into HMP Woodhill […]
(Mercury News) The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on Monday announced a $90,000 settlement with a Muslim woman who was denied the right to wear her hijab during a jail stay last fall, as well as a new policy to prevent similar […]
(Jurist) The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled on Thursday that a district court used the wrong standard when it determined that the Arkansas Division of Corrections (ADC) policy that requires Muslim prisoners to pray with members of the […]
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