ISTANBUL (AA): Last week’s fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Muslim of Algerian descent Nahel M. has shed light on the wider issue of systemic racism in French society. According to a researcher, the malaise is deeply rooted in the country’s colonial past and continues to permeate its institutions. Police and other law enforcers have system...
Sfax, Tunisia (AFP): Hundreds of African migrants were stranded in dire conditions in a desert area of southern Tunisia after being expelled from the port city of Sfax, witnesses reported. Racial tensions flared this week into violence as migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were targeted, with dozens fleeing the city or being forcibly ...
LONDON (AA) – The shooting of a 17-year-old by police in a Paris suburb and subsequent protests raised concerns about institutional racism in France, experts say. The teenager, Nahel, was of Algerian and Moroccan descent. Salman Sayyid, a professor at the University of Leeds, said the shooting was a sign of institutional Islamophobia and racis...
LONDON (AA): Last week’s fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old Muslim of North African descent in a Paris suburb should not be seen as an individual, isolated case, says a British social theorist and expert on colonialism. Salman Sayyid, professor of social theory and decolonial thought at the University of Leeds, says it lays bare […]...
MOSCOW (AA): Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused France of being one of the countries which continue their neocolonial policies. Speaking at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku, Aliyev urged French President Emmanuel Macron to apologize to the countries affected by French colonialism. “Apologies to the millions of people w...
NEW YORK (AA) – Advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against Harvard University for allegedly favoring white students. The lawsuit alleges that the prestigious college gives preferential treatment to applicants with wealthy donors and alumni connections. The civil rights advocates filed the lawsuit on behalf of several advocacy groups, s...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA): Hundreds of Srebrenica genocide victims are still missing although 28 years have passed since the massacre in the eastern Bosnian town, Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute told Anadolu. Mujo Hadziomerovic, the head of the institute, said that 12,469 bone remains were dug out during mass grave excavations after the 1...
GENEVA (AA) – A study shows that the housing market in the Central European country of Austria is affected by racial discrimination. A study commissioned by the Ombud for Equal Treatment (GAW) found that Muslims are particularly affected by discrimination. The authors of the study responded to 157 housing advertisements in the Austrian c...
BERLIN (AA): A mosque in the central German city of Duisburg has received a threatening racist letter, according to a religious official. The Duisburg Central Mosque, which is affiliated with Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB, got a letter, which included both a swastika and the word “NSU 2.0,” referring to a neo-Nazi group responsible for a...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA): A UN court has extended the sentences of two allies of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for their involvement in crimes against humanity during the Balkan wars. The Appeals Chamber of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals rejected on Wednesday the appeals by Jovica Stanisic and Frank...
