** 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,...
An alleged victim of racist abuse was handed a conditional discharge and told to “button his lip” or face being hauled before the court in a case heard at Colchester Magistrates Court yesterday. The Harwich and Manningtree Standard reports on a dispute arising from the sentence handed...
The Home Affairs select committee report on Countering Extremism released today covers a lot of ground that has been rehearsed repeatedly in recent months about the failings of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy and the Prevent programme in particular. In a report noting 24...
The Times reports on the release of figures by the National Police Chiefs Council on the number of individuals referred to the Prevent-linked Channel programme who have refused to participate in the “supportive intervention” packages designed by the programme’s multi-agency panels. The...
The Dorset Echo reports on a suspected racially aggravated act of criminal damage after a kebab shop in Littlemoor Shopping Centre in Weymouth was vandalised with a swastika. Turkish businessman Gem Ciftlik spoke of his shock to find the graffiti on his shop front in the middle of the day. Mr...
The Scotsman reports on a fine imposed on a businessman who subjected staff and guests to racist abuse at Gleneagles golf course after being refused service at the hotel bar. Stefan Hutter, 56, became angry and mouthed off at staff and guests after he was refused service at the bar because of his...
The Daily Mail reports on the ongoing case of a woman who pled guilty to a charge of a religiously aggravated criminal damage after she walked into an art gallery and abused a Muslim artist telling her “we voted to take our country back again” and damaged an artwork. Mikhaela Haze, 70,...
The Shropshire Star reports on the guilty verdict in the case of a man who made “pig noises” at a hotel employee thinking the man was a Muslim. Michael Williams, 61, of Wrexham denied a charge of racially aggravated harassment over incidents at The Royal Hotel in Llangollen, between January...
After much trailing of the report on ‘prison radicalisation’ the Ministry of Justice yesterday published an 18 page summary of the ‘main findings of the review of Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice’ but not the full report. The summary alludes to the preparation of a...
The Torquay Herald Express reports on the suspended sentence handed to a man who committed a string of offences including racially aggravated abuse of a former partner. Andrew Darby, 47, was accused of causing £2,500 pounds worth of damage to TV screens in a William Hill shop and sending 110...
The Burton Mail reports on the jailing of a man for robbery and violent assault on a Muslim taxi driver last year. Richard Williams, 47, pled guilty to charges of racially aggravated harassment, assault causing actual bodily harm and affray but denied robbery. Stoke on Trent Crown Court heard...
