** 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,...
Local news website London News Online reports on an initiative launched by Queen’s Park Rangers football club to tackle hate crime and abuse in West London. The site reports that the club’s project follows rising concerns over racist abuse in the area. A Muslim woman was reportedly spat...
Local news sources, Lancashire Telegraph and BlogPreston, report on two suspected hate incidents at the Jamea mosque on Clarendon Street in Preston last week. BlogPreston, which has been passed CCTV footage of the alleged incidents reports that on the evening of Wednesday 8 February, “a...
The Torquay Herald Express reports on the guilty plea of a woman who committed a racist offence against a male victim outside a Muslim-owned restaurant in Teignmouth. Candice Ann Graham, 35, pleaded guilty to threatening the victim with racially aggravated words or behaviour with an intent to...
The Manchester Evening News reports on the jailing of a man who subjected a fellow passenger to “vile and disgusting racist abuse” on a bus in Salford last year. Jamie McMillan, 29, had been returning from seeing his ailing grandfather in hospital when he launched the shocking rant...
Local news site Citiblog reports on hate crime awareness materials produced by students in Luton that are to be used by Bedfordshire Police in their poster campaign encouraging victims to report hate crime. Students from Stockwood Park Academy in Luton won a Bedfordshire-wide competition held...
The Mirror reports on the “shocking rant” by far-right activist Jack Buckby during a Channel 4 News debate about the “Alt-Right” on Wednesday, 8 February. During the discussion, Buckby pulled out a refugee application form and addressing a member of the National Union of Students’...
The Sun reports on a police appeal to trace a man who plastered “racist and anti-Semitic” stickers across London Underground stations last month. British Transport Police have released an image of the man they wish to speak to in connection with the sighting of the offensive stickers which...
The Independent, ITV News and the Milton Keynes Citizen report that the man arrested for allegedly attacking a Somali Muslim woman in a supermarket car park last August, causing her to lose her unborn twins, has been charged. David Gallacher, 37, has been charged with one count of assault...
STV News reports on the court appearance of a Scottish teenager who assaulted a Muslim woman at a shopping centre in Stirling, trying to rip off her headscarf. Leighton MacKenzie, 18, appeared before Stirling Sheriff Court on charges of religiously aggravated assault in connection with the...
The Shropshire Star reports on threats received by a Muslim businessman in Telford after his shop sign was used in a video by the far right group by Britain First to claim it was “proof of Islamic extremism in Wellington”. The shop, Silicon Valley, bears a symbol on its shop front in...
