** 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,...
The Metro and The Gazette report on the sentencing of a woman who subjected a group of Muslims to verbal abuse before smashing the windows of the community centre where they had gathered during Ramadan. Teresa Dent, 46, approached the Turkish Community Centre in Colchester around 10.45pm on 10 June...
The International Business Times reports on the High Court victory secured by Bedfordshire police against the far right group Britain First which bans the group from entering parts of Luton, particularly the Bury Park area, and any mosque in England and Wales for the next three years. The High...
The Chester Standard reports on the sentencing of a man who subjected his neighbours to a “six month campaign of bullying and anti-social behaviour.” James Turfrey, 40, pleaded guilty at Chester Magistrates Court to two charges of harassment without violence and racially aggravated harassment....
Local paper, The Chronicle, reports on the court appearance of a man who is alleged to have forcibly removed a Muslim woman’s face veil as she waited outside a shop with her nine year old son at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland on 3 July. Peter Scotter was charged with one count of...
There was an disturbing editorial in The Times newspaper last week coinciding with the publication of the report by the select committee for Women and Equalities, which found that the government’s Prevent programme was compounding inequalities experienced by Muslims through its failure to...
The Bournemouth Echo reports on the arrest of a 55 year old man on suspicion of a racially or religiously aggravated assault after a Turkish woman was verbally abused and punched on the side of her face while out walking in Charminster in the early hours of Saturday morning. The incident happened...
The Women and Equalities select committee published its inquiry report into Employment Opportunities for Muslims in the UK last week garnering copious media coverage over its recommendations on improving employment prospects of Muslim women, who suffer the highest rate of labour market exclusion,...
North Wales police have launched a public appeal to trace a man wanted in connection with an alleged assault on a foreign student in Bangor. ITV News reports on the release of an e-fit image of the man North Wales police are seeking to trace after a 21 year old student from Bangladesh was racially...
The Stoke Sentinel reports on a fine imposed on a woman who racially abused a Muslim taxi driver over a fare dispute last month. Mohammed Rafique collected a Angela Meakin, 42, and two other passengers from Ash Inn in Mow Cop on 22 July. When Mr Rafique charged the cost of the taxi ride a dispute...
The Clydesdale Post reports on the arrest of a 59 year old woman over an alleged Islamophobic assault. The woman was arrested in connection with an alleged incident at a park in Yoker, Glasgow last week where a Muslim woman was racially abused and her hijab tugged at in an attempt to forcibly...
