** 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 Guardian reports on an correction published by the Mail on Sunday over an article accusing a “Muslim gang” of perpetrating an attack on an immigration enforcement van in East London. The newspaper article, which was published in July, was brought to the attention of press regulation...
The Independent reports on reactions by London universities to their “naming and shaming” in yesterday’s announcement by the Home Office about “hate preachers” on campus and the new guidelines on external speakers which come into effect next Monday as part of newly enacted counter...
The Evening Standard reports on figures released by the London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime that show Scotland Yard have more than doubled the number of recruits from ethnic minority backgrounds after a ban on hiring officers who do not live in London was put into place. In the...
The Home Office today issued an announcement about the updating of the Prevent duty guidance to cover higher and further education institutions detailing thenew legal duty, which will come into force on Monday 21 September, requiring universities to clampdown on “hate preachers” on...
The Journal reports on a Muslim woman from Saudi Arabia who was allegedly assaulted on a bus in a racially motivated attack in Dublin, Ireland. Mashael Khayyat, 31, a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, said she now felt unsafe leaving her home after being hit by a man travelling on the number...
The Waltham Forest Guardian reports on the release of a photo of a ‘neo-Nazi’ wanted in connection with an incident of racially aggravated harassment after he called two Asian women “terrorists” outside Leytonstone tube station last month. The two women were leaving the station on the...
The Star reports on the support shown by Rotherham Council to South Yorkshire Police in their attempt to stop far-right protests taking place after the bill for policing protests was revealed as £4 million over the last three years. South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable, David Crompton,...
BBC News reports that two men have been charged with the murder of Mushin Ahmed who died after being violently assaulted on his way to mosque in Rotherham. Mr Ahmed, 81, was attacked in the early hours of 10 August 2015 and was found to have suffered “life-threatening head and facial...
BBC News, The Guardian, Yorkshire Evening Post and the Daily Mail all report on the life sentence passed on Zack Davies for attempted murder after he viciously attacked an Asian dentist in a Tesco store in a racially-motivated revenge attack for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Zack Davies,...
As Sky News, BBC News and the Daily Mail report on the “terrifying depravity” of seven paedophiles who have been sentenced for behaving “beyond human instinct” by raping and assaulting three children – a baby, a toddler and a young child – we look at the whether the...
