Women face new trial in Egypt for ‘indecent’ videos on TikTok

January 15, 2021 Article

An Egyptian judge overturned an acquittal verdict of two young women who were jailed last year for posting “indecent” videos on the social media video app TikTok, ordering their pretrial detention for 15 days over fresh charges of “human trafficking”, a judicial source said. A Cairo court has accused 20-year-old student Haneen Hossam and 22-year-old […]

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Security company wrote ‘Allahu Akbar’ on fake bomb in Heathrow exercise

January 15, 2021 Article

One of the UK’s biggest security firms planted a fake bomb at a Heathrow airport...

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Fire destroys hundreds of homes in Rohingya refugee camp

January 14, 2021 Article

A fire has raced through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, destroying hundreds of homes, officials said. No casualties were reported, but the UNHCR said more than 550 homes sheltering about 3,500 people as well as 150 shops were totally or partially destroyed in the fire. The fire broke out early on Thursday […]

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Temporary mortuary for 1,300 bodies ‘sobering reminder’ of coronavirus impact

January 14, 2021 Article

A new temporary mortuary that can hold up to 1,300 bodies has been built in London as the capital faces a growing Covid-19 death toll. A council leader described how the newly-built facility in north-west London acted as a “sobering reminder” of how the pandemic is affecting thousands of lives as he urged people to […]

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Covid-19: Disabled Muslim woman told “to go back to where you came from” so the “virus will leave with you”

January 13, 2021 Article

A disabled Muslim woman described how a racist elderly couple shouted at her for not...

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Reading terror attacker handed whole-life sentence for park murders

January 11, 2021 Article

The Reading terror attacker who murdered three men in a park in a “swift, ruthless and brutal” knife attack has been handed a whole-life sentence. Khairi Saadallah, 26, shouted “Allahu akhbar” as he fatally stabbed friends James Furlong, 36, Dr David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, on June 20 last year.

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Anger as China says it is freeing Uighur women from being ‘baby-making machines’

January 11, 2021 Article

A Chinese official denied Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women, following an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government polices had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being “baby-making machines”. Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the Xinjiang regional government, told reporters […]

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Terrorist stabbed three people to death in less than a minute, court told

January 5, 2021 Article

Three men were “executed” in a Reading park by a “ruthlessly efficient” terrorist in less than one minute, a court has heard. Khairi Saadallah, 26, shouted “Allahu akhbar” during the violent spree which left teacher James Furlong, 36, scientist David Wails, 49, and US citizen Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, dead. Three other people – Stephen Young, […]

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Arrests made after mob demolishes Hindu temple in Pakistan

December 31, 2020 Article

A mob led by members of Pakistan’s radical Islamist party demolished a Hindu temple after setting it on fire in a deeply conservative northwestern town, a senior police official said. The incident in the town of Karak drew condemnation from human rights activists and Pakistan’s minister for human rights, Shireen Mazari. Ms Mazari went on […]

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1,800 Rohingya relocated to isolated island

December 30, 2020 Article

Seven Bangladesh navy ships carrying 1,804 Rohingya refugees have arrived at an isolated island where they will be relocated despite concerns among human rights groups about their safety. They reached Bhashan Char island, 21 miles from the mainland, after a four-hour naval journey from the port city of Chittagong, government official Mohammed Khurshed Alam Khan […]

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