Manchester Evening News reports on a Muslim nurse who was viciously beaten by a gang whilst shopping in Stockport late last week. Qaiser Ahmed was shopping in Stockport town centre with his wife, Farah, last Friday when he stepped out of a shop to use his mobile phone. As he did so, a young woman...
The Kent Messenger and The Independent report on the suspended sentence given to a woman who punched and tasered a Muslim shopkeeper at his store in Herne Bay, Kent. Koren McCairn, 52, went to Azad Mukhuris’ Herne Bay Food Store in May to challenge him about an alleged relationship with a...
The Bristol Post reports on hate crime figures in the city noting a dramatic increase in race hate crime in the last year. The paper reports on the fall in race hate crime between 2010 and 2013 but a sharp increase in the last year, 2013 – 2014 almost to the level recorded in 2010. […]
The Evening Express, Evening Times, and BBC News all report on a new campaign launched by Police Scotland to tackle hate crimes by urging victims of hate crime to report incidents to the police. In a month long initiative called “Scotland – No Place for Prejudice”, Police Scotland aims to...
After being let off the hook by the press regulator, Ipso, for a headline earlier this year which was patently false, The Times’ sub-editors prove how lenient regulation can entrench the problem of anti-Muslim bias in the British press. The Times yesterday headlined an article “Koran encourages...
The Redditch and Alcester Advertiser reports on a new initiative launched by West Mercia Police to increase hate crime reporting in the region. West Mercia Police have joined a range of groups across the area to launch the new campaign themed “Being you is not a crime: Hate crime is”. The...
The Chronicle Live reports on a man from Gateshead, Northumbria who has been jailed for four years for killing a Muslim man over a cigarette. Gary Pitt, 22, who had drunk six cans of lager, three litres of cider and one and a half litres of vodka on May 2, was with his friends at […]
ITV News and the Independent report on the results of a new poll by YouGov for LBC Radio which found that Londoners would be more comfortable with a gay mayor than a Muslim mayor. A total of 1,153 people living in London aged over 18 were asked various questions about the London mayoral candidates...
The Guardian, BBC News and Sky News all report on the threat of legal action by the families of soldiers killed during the Iraq war over the long-awaited findings from the Chilcot inquiry. Twenty nine families have issued an ultimatum to the inquiry’s chairman, Sir John Chilcot, warning him that...
A Freedom of Information response from Avon and Somerset police reveals that a man was charged last September with one count of racially aggravated assault by beating in connection with an anti-Muslim hate crime committed against a Muslim teenager in Bristol. The teenager, a 17 year old girl, was...
