** 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 London Evening Standard picks up on a report published in Roar News on Friday about a suspected Islamophobic incident outside the Strand campus of King’s College London. Roar News reported that a Muslim student at the university was allegedly verbally abused by two men and had her face veil...
The Yorkshire Evening Post and the Pontefract & Castleford Express report on the trial of a man charged over an attack on a Pakistani pizza delivery man who was racially abused and violently assaulted when he went to deliver a takeaway order last year. On Saturday 15 May 2015, Nafees...
Local paper, The Leader, reports that a man has been charged in connection with a hate crime incident at Flint railway station last month. On 30 January, two Asian men waiting at the railway station for a train to Chester were “asked about their religious beliefs” before being abused and...
Online news site Crawley News reports on a fine imposed on a man who hurled racist abuse at one man and punched another man in the face outside a kebab shop in Sussex. George Maguire, 22, was heard shouting “p*** c***” outside The Kebab Shop in Horsham. The victim was Iranian man who was out...
The Guardian and Daily Mail report on a “fitness to practise” tribunal hearing by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service into Dr Christian Solomonides, a senior doctor working in Accident and Emergency who posted “dozens of foul-mouthed messages” on his Twitter page. Dr Solomonides, 37,...
The Liverpool Echo and the Daily Express report on comments by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, who has repeated demands that he be given powers to ban far-right groups from marching in Liverpool following the arrest of 34 men at a far right neo-Nazi protest in the city over the weekend....
STV news reports on a fine imposed on a constituent who admitted sending his MP a “grossly offensive” email communication last December. James Learmonth, 68, sent the email to the MP for Ochil and South Perthshire, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, on 1 December 2015, ahead of a parliamentary vote on air...
BBC News reports on the jail sentences passed on two men convicted of the murder of Muslim grandfather, Muhsin Ahmed, in Rotherham. Dale Jones, 30, was convicted of murder by unanimous verdict at his trial last Wednesday. Today, a jury found Damien Hunt guilty of manslaughter by unanimous verdict....
BBC News, The Mirror and The Star all report on a suspected hate crime incident involving an Asian man who had the top of his finger chopped off with a “meat cleaver” in a “racially aggravated” attack outside a BP petrol station in Rotherham. South Yorkshire Police said in a...
The News and Star reports on a man from West Cumbria who has been spared a jail sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of racially aggravated assault on a Turkish male and two other charges of using threatening words or behaviour. John Paul Williamson, 32, of Whitehaven was sentenced to 60...
