The Northern Echo, Sunderland Echo, Hartlepool Mail and BBC News report on charges brought against a man suspected of a religiously aggravated assault after a Muslim woman had her face veil ripped from her face as she shopped at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland. The newspapers...
The London Evening Standard and the Independent report on the courage of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a man who allegedly made Nazi salutes on a tube carriage while shouting “this is our country, go back!” Arifah Farooq was travelling home on Friday 2 July on the eastbound...
The Express and Star relates the temporary suspension of a cab driver’s license pending an investigation into an alleged hate crime offence in Wolverhampton. The local paper notes the observations of one of the alleged victims who contacted the paper to describe events that happened outside the...
The London Evening Standard reports on the ongoing investigation into a hate crime incident at Finsbury Park mosquewith the release of video footage of a man wanted in connection with the attack. Police were called to the north London mosque at 4.15am on Thursday 26 May after a bag contained...
The Littlehampton Gazette reports on the motion to be submitted to Adur District Council by a Muslim councillor after he was subjected to racial abuse in the weeks leading up to the EU referendum. Cllr Sami Zeglam, 24, said that he received abuse on Twitter and in direct exchanges with instances...
The Yorkshire Post reports on an alleged incident of racist abuse against Muslim councillor Nadeem Ahmed, leader of the Conservative group on Wakefield Council. The local paper reports Cllr Ahmed claims he was recently abused on two separate occasions, when he “was out running in his Wakefield...
The Northern Echo reports on a number of hate crime incidents in the north east of England since last Friday’s Brexit vote. The paper notes the reaction of local community groups and public officials, Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria, Vera Baird, and County Durham and Darlington’s...
The Waltham Forest Guardian reports on a police appeal for information in connection with an incident of Islamophobic abuse at a Morrison’s store in Walthamstow on Saturday 4 June. Zubair Munsif uploaded video footage of an elderly man launching an Islamophobic tirade as he shopped in the...
BBC News, the Evening Telegraph and The Courier report on the court appearance of a man accused of racially aggravated abuse towards Muslim staff at the Curry Junction takeaway shop in Dundee. Joel Justice, 25, was in the shop ordering food past 11 o’clock on 29 April when he verbally...
The London Evening Standard reports on an alleged post-Brexit hate crime incident in the capital relating the experience of a young Muslim male who was attacked by a man brandishing a crowbar. Adil Jamil, 23, was driving a friend home after leaving a Clapton mosque just after midnight on...
