** 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 Daily Star reports on an appeal by West Midlands Police to identify a man who is wanted in connection with a racist incident at Edgbaston Cricket Grounds during the Ashes series this year. The man is sought in connection with a hate crime incident after police received a report from an Asian...
The Evening Standard this week reported on a warning by the Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Dave Anderson QC, about Theresa May’s plans to curb “extremist speech” and its risk of extending the “surveillance state” too far. Anderson, whose remit was extended...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on an incident outside a nightclub in Exeter in which a Sri-Lankan man was assaulted and taunted with anti-Muslim abuse. The local paper reports that Christopher Jackson, 26, admitted actual bodily harm, battery, and a religiously aggravated public order offence...
The Burton Mail and the Derby Telegraph report on a planned protest by Britain First against plans for a mosque extension in Burton. The far-right group announced its “Burton Day of Action: Say no to the mega mosque” on Facebook. The post advertises the protest on Saturday 17 October 2015. The...
The Daily Star reports that the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has been arrested by police after an investigation into claims he attacked a Muslim prisoner in jail. Mr Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, 32, was arrested on suspicion of a racially...
The Edinburgh Evening News reports on a new initiative by Police Scotland to help improve the reporting of hate crime on public transport in Edinburgh. A new “transport charter” is set to be unveiled across the city to encourage witnesses to report hate crimes and improve the reporting rate of...
The Daily Mirror reports on the sentencing of a pensioner who taunted a Muslim security guard and an assistant manager at a branch of McDonalds in Langley Green, West Sussex accusing them of wanting to “chop off his head”. Patrick Maughan, 65, was drunk at the time of the incident which...
A number of newspapers trail the BBC Inside Out programme which will be broadcast tonight on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crime in the capital. The Independent, Metro, London Evening Standard and The Guardian all report on the 70% increase in Islamophobic hate crime in London between July 2014...
Local paper the Spenborough Guardian reports on a police appeal after a man was verbally abused and his car kicked in a suspected racist hate crime in Batley, West Yorkshire. The man was returning to his car with his family on Sunday evening, 30 August, at around 10.15pm when three men approached...
The Star, South Yorkshire Times and ITV News report on the arrest and bail of three men for assault and a racially aggravated public order offence following the protest by far right group Britain First in Rotherham on Saturday. The far right group returned to the city to protest at the child sex...
