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Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw revealed on Thursday a significant increase in Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes in Canada’s largest city in an update to the public. The rapid rise of Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes has been linked to the ongoing war in Gaza, beginning with the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.  [...]

German police, through order of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), raided the Islamic Center of Hamburg (IZH) and five other organizations, saying the groups were pro-Hezbollah and support the Hezbollah’s activities on Thursday. Authorities say the other organizations are subsidiaries of IZH. The raid involved police forces from several regions, and 54 objects [...]

According to a statement published Friday, the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) CEO, Rebecca Lawrence, is departing from her role. The resignation directly follows her age and sex discrimination lawsuit against the CPS, which was settled on Thursday night. Lawrence’s position as CEO was officially announced in June 2019. The CPS statement says that Lawrence plans [...]

An Ontario, Canada jury found Nathaniel Veltman guilty of the first-degree murders of Yumnah Afzaal, her parents Madiha and Salman Afzaal, and grandmother Talat Afzaal in a hate-motivated attack. A nine-year-old boy was also injured in the truck attack but survived. The deceased victims were 15-74 years old.  Nathaniel Veltman targeted the Afzaal family of [...]

Thousands marched in Mexico City on Monday to protest the death of Jesús Ociel Baena, a prominent LGBTQ+ activist and also Mexico’s first non-binary magistrate. Baena was found dead, along with their partner, on Monday morning. According to state prosecutor Jesús Figueroa Ortega, there was no evidence of a third party entering their house, and [...]

An estimated 300,000 people attended a pro-Palestinian protest Saturday afternoon in London, according to the Metropolitan Police. While hundreds of thousands marched peacefully through the capital, the day was marred by far-right clashes with police in the morning, as well as arrests being made at the march itself later in the day. The week prior [...]

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Friday that Conservative MP Bob Stewart was found guilty in a Westminster Magistrates court of racially abusing a Bahraini activist outside of an event hosted by the Government of Bahrain in December 2022, after a one day trial. Stewart had told Sayed Ahmed Alwadei to “go back [...]

Russian prisoners’ rights group Pervy Otdel reported on Friday that a Moscow court sentenced Aleksandr Strukov, the erstwhile photographer affiliated with incarcerated opposition figure Aleksei Navalny, to an eight-year prison sentence. The charges brought against him encompassed allegations of public calls for terrorism, inciting hatred, and violating citizens’ rights to practice religion. Strukov faced charges [...]

UK Member of Parliament (MP) Andy McDonald launched legal proceedings on Friday against fellow MP Chris Clarkson over Clarkson’s “highly defamatory statement” about McDonald’s involvement in a pro-Palestine rally amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Clarkson claimed that McDonald’s comments at a pro-Palestine rally were an attempt to “justify the murderous actions of Hamas.” As a [...]

Amnesty International on Monday accused Meta, the parent company of Facebook, of contributing to human rights abuses against the Tigrayan community in Ethiopia, stemming from an armed conflict between forces aligned with Ethiopia’s federal government and forces affiliated with Tigray’s regional government. Amnesty International says the abuses escalated to war crimes and crimes against humanity, [...]