** 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 Western Gazette reports on the trial postponement in the case of a serving prisoner who is facing charges of racially aggravated assault following an incident in Yeovil on 6 May. David Fuller, 53, was charged with racially aggravated assault over an alleged attack on Ali Anwar. Fuller was due...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on the jailing of a former boxer and a body builder following a fracas outside a nightclub in Exeter city centre in which a Sri Lankan man was physically assaulted and subjected to Islamophobic abuse. Christopher Jackson, 27 and Craig Lee, 25 were both charged...
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has today published a progress report on equalities in the UK entitled, ‘Is Britain Fairer?’ ‘Is Britain Fairer? The state of equality and human rights 2015’ is the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s statutory five-yearly report on equality...
The Liverpool Echo reports on the trial of a 16 year old on charges of suspected affray and racially aggravated criminal damage following an incident involving a Muslim shopkeeper. Mohammed Ashfaq owns and runs a shop in the Garston area of Liverpool and had previously experienced anti-social...
The Ilford Recorder reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused and threatened a Muslim customer at a chicken shop in Ilford. Ian Bradley, 32, appeared at Barkingside Magistrates Court on charges of racially aggravated abuse and threatening behaviour over an incident at the SSS Chicken...
The Western Morning News reports on the sentencing of two women from Plymouth one of whom urinated in front of a Muslim couple as they prayed in a Devon park. Claire Farrell, 36, pleaded guilty to religiously-aggravated threatening and abusive behaviour causing harassment at Plymouth Crown Court on...
Cumbria Police and the News and Star report on a police investigation into an alleged incident of racially-aggravated harassment towards a staff member at an Indian restaurant in Carlisle. The incident was caught on CCTV and involved a group of young males who were shown banging on the window of...
The Daily Echo reports on the arrest of a Polish man by immigration officials as he walked away from court minutes before having been handed a suspended sentence for abusing a Muslim customer at a McDonalds restaurant in Shirley High Street, Southampton. Cezary Posylek, 45, was arrested at...
Blackpool Gazette and The Star report on a race hate incident involving a woman who stormed into a Turkish-Italian take-away in Blackpool and repeatedly made race-hate remarks to the proprietor. Donna Saunders, 35, went into Ricardo’s Pizza Restaurant and yelled: “This is England – this is...
The Guardian reports on a speech to be delivered today by former Business Secretary, Vince Cable, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies’ conference on PREVENT in Practice, in which he is expected to criticise the government’s new counter-extremism strategy and the legal requirement...
