Unaccompanied refugee children who sought asylum in Sweden are forced to sell sex, a popular Swedish daily claimed on Wednesday. According to a report by Aftonbladet, orphaned refugee children in Malmö city were sexually exploited, an unidentified school principal said. The principal added that male and female refugee students were taken from the school grounds …
Read the full post →“Unaccompanied refugee children sexually exploited in Sweden”
A report released on the International Day of the Disappeared suggests that more than 74,000 people disappeared at the hands of warring parties in Syria since March 2011, with their fates unknown to their families and relatives. The Syrian Network of Human Rights (SNHR) report said out of the total 74,607 people, 71,533 ‘disappeared’ in …
Read the full post →“NGO records 74,607 forced disappearances in Syria’s 5-year-long civil war”
Nearly 18,000 people have died in government prisons in Syria since the beginning of the uprising in 2011, according to Amnesty International. A new report by the charity, based on interviews with 65 “torture survivors”, details systematic use of rape and beatings by prison guards. Former detainees described so-called welcome parties – ritual beatings using …
Read the full post →“Nearly 18,000 have died in Syria state jails”
Israeli authorities have shut down a Palestinian radio station in the Israeli-occupied West Bank over “incitement” to violence, the army said Wednesday, the latest in a series of such raids. The overnight operation in Dura near Hebron led to five arrests, according to the Israeli army. Palestinian police confirmed the detentions and said one of …
Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike in Aleppo. The image of the stunned and weary looking boy, sitting in an orange chair inside an ambulance covered in dust and with blood on his face, encapsulate the horrors inflicted on …
Read the full post →“Little Syrian boy in shock after rescued from rubble in Aleppo”
An American woman attacked two Muslim women and their babies in New York, trying to rip off their hijabs and pushing over their strollers, which the prosecutors have described as a hate crime. The attacker, whose real name is Emirjeta Xhelili, approached the women in a Brooklyn street on Thursday afternoon and tried to rip …
In yet another of the disturbing Islamophobic attacks occuring more and more frequently in the United States, a man in northern Philadelphia (Dauphin and Cleveland streets) is wanted for throwing a firebomb into an occupied car. An explosive believed to be a firebomb has been thrown into a car – allegedly while the driver was …
Read the full post →“Man throws firebomb in car, screams “there you go, Muslim!””
British Defense Ministry said it is “extremely sorry” that an Iraqi boy was allowed to drown after being forced into a river by four soldiers during the British occupation in 2003. Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, 15, was detained on suspicion of looting an industrial compound in May 2003, shortly after the fall of the Saddam …
Read the full post →“UK apologizes for soldiers who watched Iraqi boy drown”
A veiled woman was shot dead in Pantin, France. The victim of this hate crime reportedly sitting in her car when the shooting occurred. The woman was hit by five bullets. Two bullets to the head were fired at close range. The shots were reportedly fired by a person on a scooter. The assailant has …
An arson Wednesday night at the Ibrahim Jame Mosque on King Street East was stopped by Syrian refugees who put out the small fire and helped police catch a suspect. The attack comes on the eve of 15th anniversary of an arson attack on Hamilton’s Hindu Samaj Temple in the days after 9/11. “Witnesses in …
Read the full post →“Overnight arson at Hamilton mosque, fire put out by Syrian refugees”
