There’s wide coverage in the papers today on a case being heard at the Old Bailey involving nine men who stand accused of 51 charges relating to sex grooming, underage sex, rape, trafficking and child prostitution – see Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian, Daily Express, Daily Star, BBC...
Jogchum Vrielink, postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the Centre for Discrimination Law (Research Centre on Equality Policies at the University of Leuven, and Belgian lawyer, Jelle Flo, critique the decision by the Belgian Constitutional Court last month to reject cases filed against the...
One of the leaders of the English Defence League and chairman of the British Freedom Party, Kevin Carroll, has been arrested for inciting racial hatred according to an article in today’s Independent. The Independent reports that a message posted on Facebook by an EDL supporting group states...
BBC News reports on the establishment of a ‘Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies’ at Teesside University. The centre, to open in July, will be lead by Professor Nigel Copsey and Dr Matthew Feldman and will “examine far right political development and culture since its...
The Warwick Courier reports on the sentencing of a 16 year old convicted of manslaughter after he attacked 21-year old Saleem Hassan with a baseball bat outside a mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham last June. The youth has been sentenced to 4 years in a youth detention facility.
Kent local paper, Isle of Thanet Gazette, reports on the exit of the area organizer for the English Defence League after the paper investigated anti-Islam comments posted on his Facebook page. Gary Field, who posts under the pseudonym Pat Riot, posted comments like “Islam is evil”,...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the demonstration by the English Defence League in Solihull, West Midlands, at the weekend. From the local paper: “Shoppers at the Touchwood Centre in Solihull looked on in horror this afternoon (Saturday) as the EDL far right extremists waved flags and shouted...
The Mail on Sunday covered an article appearing in The Sunday Times (£) on the self-styled ‘mosque-buster’ Gavin Boby and his boasts of disrupting the progress of mosque planning proposals submitted to local councils. Boby claims to have blocked plans for “16 out of 17 mosques”. Boby, a...
The Hull Daily Mail reports on the conviction of a man who stole a CCTV camera from the Masjid Al Sahaba mosque in Hull. The man was apprehended after readers of the local papers responded to a ‘Caught On Camera’ campaign to identify criminals caught on CCTV. The report states that Shaun...
The Guardian today covers the leak of two versions of a “highly sensitive military witness statement” which illustrates “the dangers of government plans to expand secret courts”. The document concerns the details of a case involving an Afghan detainee who was arrested by British forces and...
