‘Disproportionate rates’ of premature Covid-19 death in black and Asian patients

January 22, 2021 Article

There have been disproportionate rates of premature death from Covid-19 among patients of Asian and black ethnicity, a large cohort study has found. The research, published in the journal BMJ Open, is based on nearly 1,800 patients admitted to five acute hospitals within Barts Health NHS Trust between January 1 and May 13 2020. The […]

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Twitter account of Chinese embassy in US locked after Uighurs post

January 21, 2021 Article

Twitter has locked the account belonging to China’s embassy in the US after a tweet stated that Uighur women in Xinjiang have been emancipated and are no longer “baby making machines”. One of the final acts of the Trump administration this week was declaring that China’s policies and actions in regard to Muslims and ethnic […]

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Man charged with assault as worshippers subjected to racist abuse and gun gestures outside mosque

January 21, 2021 Article

Merseyside Police today (January 21) named a 45-year-old man charged in connection with an assault...

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Donald Trump pardons former strategist Steve Bannon

January 20, 2021 Article

US President Donald Trump has pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people. The pardons and commutations for 143 people, including Bannon, were announced after midnight on Wednesday in the final hours of Trump’s White House term. A statement from the White House said: […]

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Pompeo says China’s policies on Muslims in Xinjiang amount to ‘genocide’

January 20, 2021 Article

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has imposed new sanctions on China and said its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang constitute a “genocide”. Mr Pompeo made the determination just 24 hours before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. There was no immediate response from the incoming Biden team, although several members have been […]

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Britain’s youngest terrorist can be freed from jail, says Parole Board

January 18, 2021 Article

Britain’s youngest terrorist – who plotted to murder police officers in Australia on Anzac Day – can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled. The 20-year-old, from Blackburn, Lancashire, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages instructing an Australian jihadist to launch attacks during a 2015 parade. He was jailed […]

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Figures show dramatic reduction in Saudi Arabia’s use of death penalty

January 18, 2021 Article

Saudi Arabia, for years one of the world’s most prolific executioners, dramatically reduced the number of people put to death last year, following changes halting executions for non-violent drug-related crimes, according to the government’s tally and independent observers. The Saudi government’s Human Rights Commission said on Monday it documented 27 executions in 2020. That is […]

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Foreign Secretary urges China to let UN human-rights commissioner visit Xinjiang

January 17, 2021 Article

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has called on China to allow the United Nations (UN) to visit a province where it is accused of “appalling” human-rights abuses against the Uighur minority group. Mr Raab said reports of internment camps and women being forcibly sterilised in Xinjiang were “truly shocking” and that authorities in Beijing should permit […]

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Multicultural centre fire being treated as hate crime in Belfast

January 15, 2021 Article

Police believe a fire that extensively damaged a multicultural centre in Belfast was started deliberately....

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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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