** 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,...
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The Independent and the Daily Telegraph both repeat The Times (£) front page story today on figures from the 2011 Census that show that almost a tenth of babies and toddlers in England and Wales are Muslim. The papers note that of the 3.5 million children aged 0-4 years, 320,000, or 9%, are...
Independent news site Small World News Service and local paper, Bristol Post, report on the ‘ugly scenes’ at an EDL protest against plans to open a new mosque in the city. Approximately 30 EDL members marched on College Green against converting a former Jesters club that has been empty for...
The Daily Mail and Channel 4 News report on the Electoral Commission’s publication on Electoral Fraud in the UK. The EC report highlights the problem of electoral fraud “in areas which are largely or predominately populated by some South Asian communities, specifically those with roots in...
Our letters to the Press Complaints Commission in relation to articles appearing in The Times and the Daily Mail newspapers in December can be here and here, respectively.
The Independent and BBC News today draw attention to the NSPCC’s ChildLine report “Can I Tell You Something?” which reviews the work of the children’s charity in regards to its counselling sessions with children and young people over the period 2012/13. During 2012/13, ChildLine...
The Sunderland Echo reports that a man has been charged with racially aggravated criminal damage after an attack on a disused pub that is to be converted into a Muslim education centre. Graham French, 28, will appear before magistrates on 22 January for the attack in Shotton Colliery, County...
The Independent, The Sun (£), the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror all report today and on the release of new data on popular attitudes on immigration. The poll was carried out by the research institute that runs the annual British Attitudes Survey and conducted for a BBC 2 programme, The Truth...
The parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) upholds views expressed in its initial report criticising provisions in the Government’s Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill regarding Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNA), Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) and the...
