** 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 Lincolnshire Echo reports on an 11 year old boy who found himself in court on criminal charges after subjecting a family to “years of abuse”. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Lincoln Youth Court on charges of common assault and racial harassment after...
The Gazette reports on a witness appeal launched by Cleveland Police in connection with an alleged incident of anti-Muslim abuse on a bus travelling along Stockton High Street at around 9am on Wednesday 27 July. Police are looking to trace an elderly man who allegedly engaged in an anti-Muslim...
The Manchester Evening News reports on a spate of online abuse directed at a Manchester based law firm which offers legal products to Muslim consumers in a shari’ah compliant way. Carter Law were at the receiving end of online abuse after launching an advertising campaign featuring services for...
The South Wales Evening Post reports on the sentencing of a man who spouted anti-Muslim abuse outside a bar following the Wales vs Portugal Euro2016 football match on 6 July. Manjit Johal, 35, had “consumed alcohol to excess” when he began approaching police officers on patrol in the city...
ITV News reports on a police appeal in connection with an incident in which a Muslim schoolgirl was racially abused and a car “driven at her” as she crossed the road on her walk home from school on 20 July. The victim, a schoolgirl aged 14, was crossing the road along Eastmayne, from Carylands...
STV News and the newspaper Fife Today reported on the court appearance of seven young men in connection with the alleged assault and racial abuse of a Muslim takeaway owner and a fellow staff member on the weekend following the Bataclan attack in Paris last November. Mohammed Khalid, 53, and...
The Courier reports on the outburst by the father of a young man sentenced this week for racially abusing restaurant staff at a Dundee takeaway. Joel Justice, 25, was handed a community sentence with an order to carry out 135 hours of unpaid work and placed on supervision for two years after...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the reaction of the chairman of West Yorkshire Police Federation, Nick Smart, to the conditional discharge sentence imposed on a man found guilty of racially abusing a female police officer. John Moorhouse was handed a conditional discharge by Kirklees...
The manager of a Muslim takeaway in Dundee at the centre of a recent hate crime trial has said incidents of racist abuse had been “non-stop” following the Paris attacks in November 2015. Mohammed Irfan Nazir, 21, manager of the Curry Junction takeaway shop spoke to the local paper,...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the court appearance of a man guilty of several racially aggravated offences in a long running dispute with a local Muslim resident. Jamie Hardisty, 25, pleaded guilty to two charges of racially-aggravated threatening behaviour and one offence of...
