** 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 Stoke Sentinel reports on the court appearance of a man charged with racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards Muslim victim, Asim Latif. Robert Spilsbury, 39, pleaded not guilty at North Staffordshire magistrates court this week. He is due to face trial...
The Irish Times reports on the guilty verdict passed in the trial of a man charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour intending to stir up hatred or arouse fear following an alleged assault on two Pakistani men at their home in Belfast in 2014. Mohammed Asif Khattak and...
The Surrey Mirror reports on the trial date set for two men charged with racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and criminal damage following an altercation at a taxi rank in Reigate on 5 March. Jack Armstrong, 23, and Elliot Butler, 21, are accused of racially...
The Hereford Times reports on the trial of two brothers charged with assault after a “ferocious” attack on an Asian man who had travelled from Berkshire to Leominster to visit his pregnant girlfriend. Ryan Davies, 19 and his brother, Jake, 23, appeared at Worcester Crown Court charged...
The Birmingham Mail reports on another suspected incident of “flying while Muslim” with news of two men being ushered off a Monarch Airlines flight to Rome on Sunday 15 May after fellow passengers accused them of “acting suspiciously”. The local paper reports that West...
The London Evening Standard yesterday published news of a Muslim businessman who is suing City of London police for alleged racial discrimination following his arrest during the 2012 Olympics. Akmal Afzal, 23, claims that he was singled out by officers for being “an Asian with a beard”....
The London Evening Standard yesterday published a front page story, “Jihadi Jail UK”, in which the anecdotal evidence of a single prisoner was presented as a wider indictment of the prison service’s handling of ‘radicalisation’. The ES article referred to HMP Belmarsh as “a jihadi...
The Ilford Recorder reports on an appeal for information by British Transport Police in connection with a suspected Islamophobic attack at Paddington station. The paper reports that the male victim, 34, boarded a train to Newbury from Paddington station at 10.15pm on Sunday 1 May. The victim was...
The Chronicle reports on the launch of a police investigation into a suspected hate crime after local councillor, Dipu Ahad, filmed footage of a man allegedly making a “beheading” threat at a far right protest in Byker, Newcastle last Saturday. Councillor Ahad was with anti-racism group...
The Sunderland Echo reports on the court appearance of a man suspected of a violent assault on a young Muslim male at a metro station in South Tyneside. Robert Taylor, 45, is alleged to have attacked Rahman Choudary, 20, at Simonside metro station with a hammer and a hockey stick on 31 December...
