The Exeter Echo and Express reports on a Facebook post by Muslim student Kalsoom Naqvi in which she relates an experience in Exeter city centre where she and a friend were verbally abused by a man outside a halal takeaway shop. Kalsoom posted a video on Facebook of the encounter showing her...
The London Evening Standard and Islington Tribune report on a suspected hate crime incident at Finsbury Park mosque after “pork sausages” and “pig’s remains” were found slung over the gate and onto the mosque grounds. Officers were called to the mosque around the time of the early...
BBC News and ITV News report on the sentencing of a football fan who racially abused Muslim footballer Arouna Kone during the FA Cup fourth round match between Everton and Carlisle United in January. Owen Newbury, 18, admitted racially/religiously aggravated intentional...
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has released its2015 annual report for the period 1 January to 31 December and marking the main trends in the fields of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance among Member States of the Council of...
The Daily Telegraph reports on the results of an Opinium Research survey exploring identity and equality in multicultural Britain with the headline “One in three Muslims do not feel ‘part of British culture’.” The Opinium survey, based on a polling sample of 2,000 people plus a...
The Stoke Sentinel reports on the court appearance of a man charged with racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards Muslim victim, Asim Latif. Robert Spilsbury, 39, pleaded not guilty at North Staffordshire magistrates court this week. He is due to face trial...
The Chronicle reports on the court appearance of a man charged with racially/religiously aggravated common assault over an incident at an Asda supermarket in Gosport earlier this year. Joseph Tudor, 36, pleaded guilty when he appeared before Newcastle Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The court...
The Independent was among several newspapers yesterday reporting on the announcement by the Home Secretary of an “independent review into the application of Sharia Law in England and Wales”. The review, which was noted in the Government’s Counter Extremism Strategylast...
The Irish Times reports on the guilty verdict passed in the trial of a man charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour intending to stir up hatred or arouse fear following an alleged assault on two Pakistani men at their home in Belfast in 2014. Mohammed Asif Khattak and...
The Surrey Mirror reports on the trial date set for two men charged with racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and criminal damage following an altercation at a taxi rank in Reigate on 5 March. Jack Armstrong, 23, and Elliot Butler, 21, are accused of racially...
