The Guardian publishes an article ahead of the launch of a report by Rights Watch UK today on the impact of the Prevent statutory duty on Muslims in the education sector. Channel, the controversial counter-terrorism programme which rests upon ‘referrals’ to the process of individuals suspected...
The Crown Prosecution Service has published its eighth Hate Crime Report detailing the number of hate crimes prosecuted over the period 2015/16 and comparing to the previous 12 months. The report covers the different strands of hate crime and the prosecution and conviction rates arising from hate...
The Chronicle reports on an Islamophobic incident in Alnwick, Northumberland where a disused cottage owned by Northumberland County Council was vandalised with the words “Death to Islam”, swastikas and other offensive graffiti sprayed on the exterior walls. Police were alerted to the...
The Pew Research Center has this week published survey results which show anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe to be rising and more pronounced in eastern European countries. The results which are presented in the report, ‘Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs’, show...
The MP for Chippenham, Michelle Donelan, has described a post-Brexit hate incident in which one of her former staffers, a British-Pakistani called Taimur, was racially abused while shopping in London. At Prime Minister’s Questions on 29 June, Ms Donelan told the Prime Minister, David Cameron:...
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary (HMIC) has published reports covering four constabularies, Bedfordshire, Staffordshire, Essex and Surrey, as part of the effectiveness strand in its all-inspection PEEL programme – Police Effectiveness, Efficiency and Legitimacy –...
The Herald reports on an investigation launched by Police Scotland after “neo-Nazi, anti-Islamic and anti-Polish” stickers were found posted on lampposts and buildings across Edinburgh. The Scottish capital has one of the highest proportions of Polish migrants in the UK. The paper...
The Coventry Telegraph reports on handwritten stickers found in Rugby bearing the slogans “kill all migrants” and “kill a Muslim”. Other slogans spotted include ones using an offensive name for black people and ones stating “Immigrants Out” and “Immigrants not welcome”. The...
Wales Online and the Mirror report on hate crimes experienced by a Muslim refugee family in Cardiff over the last few months including having the words “Muslims are scum” daubed onto their front door. The family, who hail from Egypt and have four young children aged three, six, eight...
The Daily Record reports on the delay in the sentencing of a woman who racially abused a Muslim police officer and caused extensive damage to a taxi. Carolann Chisholm, 37, pleaded guilty to three charges for racially aggravated threatening and abusive behaviour likely to cause fear and alarm,...
