“We have no permission for go out. Now we are prison [sic],” a 17-year-old Pakistani migrant texted, along with a sad emoji face, locked inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Just under a hundred minors aged 12 to 17 find shelter in the rooms reserved for them. “We have beds, air …
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Israel is blocking travel out of the Gaza Strip for thousands of Palestinians on the grounds of unspecified “security preclusions”. This represents a significant tightening of the blockade, despite claims by Israeli officials that restrictions are actually being eased. The data was released by Israeli NGO Gisha in a new factsheet published yesterday. Gisha expressed …
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Manchester Evening News reports on an alleged racist assault on a young Muslim boy in Chorlton, Greater Manchester last week (22 September). Rosina Sheraz posted a message on Facebook following the incident in which her 13 year old son was repeatedly called a “P***” before being punched in the face by another boy. The incident …
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The London Evening Standard reports on a suspected assault on an elderly man outside a mosque in north London. The paper reports a man in his 70s was found injured in the street outside the UK Albanian Muslim Community and Cultural Centre on Rupert Road, in south Kilburn, at around 3.40am on Saturday 24 September. …
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Police killings of black people in the United States are reminiscent of lynchings and the government must do far more to protect them, a United Nations working group said. The hard-hitting criticism – drawing a comparison between modern police behaviour and mob killings of blacks in the 19th and 20th centuries – comes at a …
Two separate bomb attacks took place in the German city of Dresden Monday night, according to Saxony police. One of the attacks targeted a mosque while the second targeted the International Congress Center of Dresden. No injuries have been reported from the two home made devices, only property damage, police added. Police say they believe …
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Members of a Danish nationalist party sparked controversy when they distributed cans of spray labeled “Asylum Spray: Legal [and] Effective” in the town of Haderslev in southern Denmark on Saturday. The Danskernes Parti (Party of the Danes) is currently trying to qualify for the next parliamentary elections and seeks to have all non-Western immigrants thrown …
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Walter Wobmann, a member of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, said it was unfair that headscarves were allowed in passport photos despite hats and hairbands being banned. According to local media, the politician described the policy as an act of “unequal treatment” and branded it “unacceptable”. Mr Wobmann, who has previously campaigned against minarets and …
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A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Nine people were injured during Monday morning’s shootings on the street in front of …
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An Egyptian MP has said that hundreds of refugees who drowned off the coast of Egypt “do not deserve sympathy” and suggested they deserved to die. Elhamy Agina, who has previously said women must undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) to help curb male “sexual weakness”, also blamed the parents of refugees for not bringing them …
