A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in prison for crimes against humanity.The “historic” verdict marked the end of the first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria. Anwar Raslan was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus in 2011 and […...
In international news, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Dr. Fernand de Varennes took to Twitter over the social medial harassment of Indian Muslim women. Varennes asked that the culprits be prosecuted. His remarks came amid recent shock and furor over the “Bulli Bai” App. It targets prominent Muslim women by putting up their images ...
On Jan. 17, Illinois will for the first time mark Muhammad Ali Day along with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Illinois Muslim Coalition worked to get Muhammad Ali Day recognized statewide. The move is part of a new state law that requires history courses to include the study of the contributions made by Muslim […]
The administration of US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said it will contribute roughly $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. But the newly announced aid falls far short of the war-torn country’s immediate needs. Millions of Afghans are on the brink of starvation and at risk of freezing to death in the aftermath of […]
Virginia state senator Amanda Chase was criticized by Muslim and Jewish groups for comments against ending mask mandates. In a Facebook post on her personal page, Chase attempted to draw parallels between masks and the niqab – a face veil worn by some Muslim women. In her post, Chase claimed that the Muslim face-covering was […]
The International Jurists Union expressed “great” concern Sunday over the human rights situation in Tunisia since late July. Necati Ceylan JAI HAAN, the union’s general secretary, called on Tunisian authorities to respect their international obligations. The organization cited a Dec. 31 incident in which security agents in civilian cloth...
In August 2021, Afghan taxi driver Hamid Safi found a two-month old boy alone in Kabul airport, amid the chaos of the US troop withdrawal. He and his wife took the baby in and cared for him, as a social media campaign to find the family was under way. Now, seven-month-old Sohail Ahmadi has been […]
Dr. Saleyha Ahsan, who lost her father last year to COVID-19, called for the resignation of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This was after he held a party and made jokes about it, in violation of the Covid-19 bans in the country. The Mirror newspaper reported that several parties with 40 to 50 people were […]
