** 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,...
Following complaints by mend, The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police and members of Britain’s Muslim community, The Times has changed its appalling headline regarding the murder of Imam Jalal Uddin who was brutally beaten to death last Thursday. The graphic above shows the reference...
The Evening Standard reports on a pilot training programme by Scotland Yard to help officers recognise “unconscious bias” in the operation of policing duties in a bid to challenge prejudices about race. All 32,000 officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) will be trained to spot signs...
The Courier reports on the sentencing of a man in connection with an assault on a taxi driver in Dunfermline, Fife. Steven Ferguson, 29, was charged with common assault and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner which was racially aggravated in connection with an incident involving taxi...
The Bristol Post and Daily Star report on the court appearance of a man charged with a racially aggravated public order offence for his alleged involvement in the attack on a mosque in Totterdown, Bristol on 17 January. Kevin Crehan, 34, who was arrested last month in connection with the incident...
The Greenock Telegraph reports on the court appearance of a man charged with an offence under the Communications Act after allegedly posting racially abusive and threatening messages about Syrians refugees on a Facebook page. Scott Clarke, 40, appeared before Greenock Sheriff Court in connection...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a young Asian boy in the village of Golcar in Huddersfield on 15 March 2015. The boy, 15, was walking along Scar Lane in Golcar when he heard Adam Haggarty, 20, call out to him using the racist term “You P**i”....
The Daily Mail reports on the latest development in the case of three women charged with racially aggravated common assault after they allegedly attacked a Muslim woman on the school run, pulling off her hijab and punching her in the face. The three women, Emma Marie Camilleri, 35, Sarah Gaskin, 18...
The Daily Record, STV News and the Herald Scotland report on a fine imposed by Paisley Sheriff Court in the case of a man who posted disparaging comments about Islam and Muslims on Twitter following the Glasgow bin lorry crash in December 2014. The lorry crash on 22 December killed six people and...
The Portsmouth News reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused and assaulted a taxi driver over a dispute about a travel route. Peter Saville, 61, was picked up by Aqua Cars driver, Abdulerhman Eltahir, outside a pub on 27 September 2015. Saville paid the driver £5.00 in advance but...
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary has published the findings from the legitimacy strand of an all-inspection programme covering the 43 police forces in England and Wales. This is the first inspection of police legitimacy, and forms part of HMIC’s annual all-force inspection...
