** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
STV News and The Herald report on the release of CCTV images of a man sought by Police Scotland in connection with a report of an alleged religiously aggravated incident at the Thistles shopping centre in Stirling earlier this year. The news report states the victim, a 27 year old woman, was...
North Hertfordshire District Council has announced that it is to serve as a third party reporting centre and that victims of hate crime can report incidents to the council via its customer services centre without need to go the police station. Third party reporting centres are a vital mechanism...
The Independent and London Evening Standard report on a suspected Islamophobic attack in north London where a Muslim woman had her headscarf pulled off as she stood at a crossing on Tottenham High Road last month. The victim, a 20 year old Psychology student at Goldsmiths College has since spoken...
The Daily Mail reports on the interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning with the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, in which he repeated his argument that the Government’s Prevent strategy is “fuelling distrust” among Muslim communities. The...
The Daily Express reports on the disbarring of a nurse who was convicted of religiously aggravated common assault last year after verbally abusing and assaulting a taxi driver in Nottingham. Elaine Roots, 57, was picked up by a driver on 10 June 2015 after a night out in Nottingham. Roots, who...
The Ballymoney Times reports on the suspended sentence handed to a man who called a male a “P*** b******” after getting drunk on the first anniversary of his cousin’s death. Steven Johnstone, 21, was marking the one year anniversary of the death of his cousin, Adam Gilmour who was killed in...
The Bicester Advertiser reports on the sentencing of a man convicted of criminal damage, possession of a Class B drug, and racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress at the Nuffield Health Centre in Oxford on 20 September. Scott Hadlow, 36, admitted damaging a...
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has published its country report on the UK, part of the human rights organisation’s regular monitoring of Member States of the Council of Europe. The report has garnered some media coverage in the UK papers with Sky News and The...
The MK Citizen reports that the Somali Muslim female who lost her unborn twins in an alleged racist attack is so fearful over her safety and that of her children, that the family are seeking help from a councillor to be rehoused in another area. The woman who was verbally abused and “kicked to...
The Cambridge News reports on a spate of “offensive” stickers which have appeared in Cambridge, some of them plastered on public property near to schools. The stickers are described as “anti-Muslim,” “anti-European Union,” and “anti-Semitic”. The paper notes the stickers...
