** 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 Irish Examiner and Limerick Leader report on the trial of a man who daubed the words “murderers out” on the front of a Pakistani run takeaway in Limerick after watching beheading videos on television news. Mark Hobbs, 50, an Englishman living in Limerick in Ireland, had previously...
The Mirror reports on the sacking of a supply teacher at a south London school for calling a 12 year old Muslim pupil “a terrorist”. The paper reports that the female supply teacher at Deptford Green secondary school used the term of abuse when the Muslim pupil complained about being placed on...
The Hereford Times reports on the trial of a man charged with two counts of racially aggravated common assault after he launched an attack on an Asian man in the city centre for “no other reason apart from his ethnic background”. Zahid Ali, who had recently moved to Hereford from Birmingham,...
The Times front page today features the headline “Muslims are not like us, race equality chief says”, in an article on the comments by the former Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Sir Trevor Phillips, at a meeting organised by Policy Exchange on Monday. The headline does a...
The Guardian and Politics Home report on a letter from the Green Party to the BBC appealing a decision by the broadcaster not to allocate it any time to screen party political broadcasts. The Green Party’s chief executive, Nick Martin, wrote to the BBC director general, Tony Hall, and the...
The Guardian reports on a 37% rise in race hate crimes on Britain’s railway networks within the last five years, with an average of more than five reported incidents of abuse and harassment each day, according to figures released under FOI. British Transport Police (BTP), which collates data...
The Surrey Advertiser reports on a fine imposed on a man who verbally abused a Muslim woman on the streets of Woking after the Paris attacks in November last year. David Sadgrove pleaded guilty to two counts of racially aggravated harassment at Guildford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 19...
The Press and Journal reports on an arrest warrant issued by Aberdeen Sheriff Court after a man accused of a racially aggravated offence failed to appear in court last week. Lewis Guyan, 27, is alleged to have grabbed a Muslim man on September 27 last year and tried to burn him with a cigarette at...
Newcastle’s Chronicle Live news site reports that a man has been arrested and charged with racially/religiously aggravated common assault following an incident at an Asda supermarket in Gosforth last week. The local news site reported on the incident which happened on Wednesday 20 January at...
The Wiltshire and Gloucester Standard reports on the victim of a racially aggravated hate crime who has donated his victim compensation to a local charity that supported him in pursuing his claim for justice. Navjot Sawhney, 24, suffered a “tirade” of racist abuse from 22 year old Dean Kent on...
