** 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,...
A woman in Birmingham who faced up to an English Defence League supporter described how the police “did nothing” when far-right protesters confronted a woman in a hijab. EDL leader Ian Crossland, along with 20-25 other supporters, had turned on the woman during a protest in Birmingham on 8...
2017 will see an elected contest for a newly-created position – the Mayor of Greater Manchester, who is due to be elected on 4 May 2017. The decision to create the post was announced by former Chancellor George Osborne in November 2014, and will involve the implementation of new primary...
Police chiefs have warned neighbourhood policing will suffer on Saturday 8th April because of the English Defence League demonstration in Birmingham. The far-right hate-group is planning a protest in Centenary Square, where Police estimate as few as 100 EDL supporters may attend. Meanwhile, a...
Stand Up to Racism is calling for a unity protest in Croydon against racist attacks, and to demonstrate that refugees & migrants are welcome here. On Friday 31 March, a 17 year old Kurdish refugee, Reker Ahmed, was subject to a violent attack by up to 30 attackers. This attack has caused...
In a new strategy to tackle and support the high number of victims of hate crime, Kirklees Council, Police and other agencies have launched a new app to help make it easier for victims and witnesses of hate crime to come forward. The Examiner reports that a joint initiative between Stop Hate UK...
Groups in Croydon have decorated their neighbourhood in anti-racist graffiti in response to the attack on teenager Reker Ahmed last week. Slogans on the streets around the bus stop where Ahmed was attacked proclaim “Refugees Welcome”, “No 2 Racism”, “Refugee Defense League” and...
On March 16th, an audience of over 470 distinguished guests filled out the Porchester Hall in Bayswater and were treated to a special evening with James Caan as hosted by mend. The evening commenced with Industry professionals and business men/women being given an insight into the valuable work...
On Tuesday last week, buy-to-let tycoon from Kent, Fergus Wilson 69, was exposed for banning South Asian tenants from his properties because they allegedly make carpets “smell of curry,” and has since stated that he will not apologize for the comments. Wilson told Sky news that “There has...
The High Court has ordered Stand for Peace to pay £140,000 in damages to the founder of the Islam Channel after it wrongfully labelled him a “convicted terrorist”. In a landmark ruling, Sir David Eady of the High Court of Justice Queen’s Bench Division, awarded Mohamed Ali Harrath the...
BBC News reports that seven people have been charged following the horrific and appalling attack on a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon last Friday. Reker Ahmed, a 17-year-old Kurdish-Iranian refugee, was left with a fractured spine, fractured skull and bleeding on the brain after the assault, which...
