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JURIST Guest Columnist Per Lægreid of the University of Bergen argues that Norwegian anti-terror laws should not be expanded to individuals planning terror attacks and that when faced with the choice between upholding individual liberties and attempting to prevent terror,...

A Norwegian court on Monday convicted two men accused of planning an attack against the Danish newspaper that published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. This is the first conviction under Norway's anti-terror laws . Both defendants, Mikael...

A Danish court on Wednesday sentenced Somali Islamist Muhideen Mohammed Geele to an additional year in prison for his 2010 attack on Kurt Westergaard, illustrator of the controversial 2005 cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad [BBC...

A federal jury on Thursday convicted Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Chicago resident with Canadian citizenship, on two counts of planning to attack a Copenhagen newspaper, but found him not guilty on charges of helping to plan the 2008 Mumbai...

JURIST Contributing Editor Liaquat Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the recent events in the US are a continuation of a Western medieval custom of desecrating the Qur'an... The recent Qur'an burning by Pastor Terry Jones,...

A Danish court on Friday sentenced Somali Islamist Muhideen Mohammed Geelle to nine years in prison for his 2010 attack on Kurt Westergaard, illustrator of the controversial 2005 cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad as...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called for the revocation of blasphemy laws in Pakistan after a Christian woman was sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad ...

A Pakistani court on Wednesday reimposed a ban on the video sharing network YouTube after content deemed offensive to Muslims resurfaced on the website when a previous ban was lifted last month. The court also restricted access...

The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission announced Sunday that the agency has lifted a ban against Facebook after the social networking site agreed to remove content depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The commission blocked access to Facebook [BBC...

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority on Wednesday ordered Internet service providers to block social networking site Facebook in response to a competition created by a group of the website's members entitled "Draw Muhammad Day." The...