The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) announced that if in power they would ban the face veil, prevent any more Islamic schools from being built and require any girls deemed at risk from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to have yearly medical checks. The proposals came as part of the...
BBC News reports on the launch of a new online hate crime hub by London mayor Sadiq Khan to support online hate crime victims in the capital. Five specially trained Metropolitan Police officers will make up the hub, which aims to improve police responses to online hate. The dedicated officers will...
Paul Golding, the leader of far-right group Britain First, has been condemned for posting a Twitter video which he claimed showed “a crowd of ‘moderate’ Muslims celebrating the Paris terror attack in London”. The video footage is real but Golding’s description is a complete fabrication...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the “shocking” racially aggravated attack of an 11-year-old boy playing on the street in the Acocks Green area of the city last Friday. The newspaper reports that the boy was innocently playing football with a friend when he was racially abused and beaten up. The...
Local newspaper News and Star reports on the arrest of a man for a racially aggravated offence outside an Indian restaurant in Carlisle. The incident is alleged to have occurred around 8.20pm on Sunday 16 April outside the Shaha Tandoori restaurant on Botchergate. The restaurant, currently owned by...
The Huffington Post and Independent carry news of Britain First’s “invasion” of an Islamic bookshop in Alum Rock in Birmingham, prompting a wave of support in response from the local community. Britain First, who have been banned from entering mosques in England and Wales and parts of Luton...
According to police, a family from County Down were targeted in two racist attacks in two days last week. Two adults and two children had to be escorted from their home after a car was set alight in the O’Donnell Park area of Castlewellan. Police said they are treating the blaze, which...
The local newspaper Cumnock Chronicle reports on efforts to eradicate hate crime across Scotland via Police Scotland’s Hate Crime Awareness Week 2017. Hate crime offences are defined as being motivated by malice or ill will towards an individual or particular social group, on the basis of their...
Local paper Essex Chronicle reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a Muslim woman wearing hijab on a train journey from Stratford last summer. Lee Moss, 31, boarded the Shenfield-bound train at around 3.15pm on 14 July 2016, along with a woman wearing a headscarf, towards whom he...
The Evening Standard reports on figures showing that race and religious hate crime on London’s tube network rose by almost 60% in the six months following the Brexit vote last year. The figures, obtained via a Freedom of Information request, show that a total of 468 racially and religiously...
