** 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,...
Local paper, Pendle Today, reports on the trial of a man who attacked a Muslim male as he left his workplace in Nelson, Lancashire in the early hours on 21 February. Calling Thomas, 24, was “groggy” from drink when he set upon Zeshan Elahi as he left work. Burnley Magistrates’...
The Essex Chronicle reports on the cut in the prison sentence of a woman who pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offence after she launched a “torrent of abuse” at a medic. Nicola Meechan, 37, was sentenced to four months’ in prison at Chelmsford Crown Court in...
The Northern Ireland Newsletter newspaper reports on the community sentence handed to a man found guilty of racially abusing two Muslim men in an attack at their home in Belfast in 2014. Mohammed Asif Khattak and a friend were verbally abused and assaulted when a group of people gathered outside...
The Northern Echo, Sunderland Echo, Hartlepool Mail and BBC News report on charges brought against a man suspected of a religiously aggravated assault after a Muslim woman had her face veil ripped from her face as she shopped at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland. The newspapers...
The Littlehampton Gazette reports on the motion to be submitted to Adur District Council by a Muslim councillor after he was subjected to racial abuse in the weeks leading up to the EU referendum. Cllr Sami Zeglam, 24, said that he received abuse on Twitter and in direct exchanges with instances...
The Yorkshire Post reports on an alleged incident of racist abuse against Muslim councillor Nadeem Ahmed, leader of the Conservative group on Wakefield Council. The local paper reports Cllr Ahmed claims he was recently abused on two separate occasions, when he “was out running in his Wakefield...
The London Evening Standard reports on the ongoing investigation into a hate crime incident at Finsbury Park mosquewith the release of video footage of a man wanted in connection with the attack. Police were called to the north London mosque at 4.15am on Thursday 26 May after a bag contained...
The Express and Star relates the temporary suspension of a cab driver’s license pending an investigation into an alleged hate crime offence in Wolverhampton. The local paper notes the observations of one of the alleged victims who contacted the paper to describe events that happened outside the...
The London Evening Standard and the Independent report on the courage of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a man who allegedly made Nazi salutes on a tube carriage while shouting “this is our country, go back!” Arifah Farooq was travelling home on Friday 2 July on the eastbound...
The London Evening Standard reports on an alleged racist incident at the Royal College of Art yesterday where Muslim artist, Yasmeen Sabri, was exhibiting her ‘Walk a Mile in her Veil’ exhibition. Sabri, whose art exhibition includes a display showing a mannequin in a burqa, said the woman...
