Bangladesh Scraps Plan to Start Repatriating Rohingya
By JULHAS ALAM COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The head of Bangladesh’s refugee commission said plans to begin a voluntary
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UN Rights Chief Urges Halt to Rohingya Repatriation Plan
The U.N. human rights chief says Bangladesh’s government should halt plans to repatriate more than 2,200 Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar, saying such a move would endanger their lives.
Read moreUighurs’ Supporters March as China Faces Rights Review at UN
Supporters of China’s Muslim Uighur minority are demonstrating in Geneva as the U.N.’s top human rights body examines the country’s rights record in a regular review.
Read moreAppeals Filed for 2 Myanmar Journalists in Secrets Case
Lawyers for two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in prison in Myanmar for possession of official documents are appealing the verdict, the news agency said Monday.
Read moreFeds Defend Terror Reporting Tool at the Ninth Circuit
Arguing before a Ninth Circuit panel Thursday, a U.S. government lawyer defended an anti-terrorism program that critics say puts innocent Americans on a watch list just for being Muslim or engaging in innocuous activities like taking photos in public.
Read moreIndia Bans Instant Divorce by Muslim Men
India’s government on Wednesday approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce.
Read moreWorld Court Opens Preliminary Probe Into Rohingya Expulsions
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced Tuesday that she is launching a preliminary investigation into deportations of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh.
Read moreCargill Class Action
Cargill Meat Solutions will pay $1.5 million to settle charges of discriminating against African and Muslim employees, the EEOC announced Friday.
Read moreRewriting History, Bosnian Serbs Question Srebrenica Genocide
The signs here are in Cyrillic, the churches are Orthodox Christian, the beer is Serbian and the residents of this Serbian side of Sarajevo say what happened in Srebrenica two decades ago was not genocide.
Read moreDC Moratorium on Issue Ads Faces Renewed Challenge
Beltway-area transit officials will have to show that they had a legitimate basis to ban issue-based advertising after the D.C. Circuit sided 2-1 Friday with a group whose rejected ad depicted a sword-wielding cartoon of a Muslim with a “You Can’t Draw Me” speech bubble.
Read moreRights Group Details Lead-Up to Myanmar Attacks on Rohingya
The Myanmar military systematically prepared for attacks on Rohingya Muslims, confiscating knives and other sharp-edged tools, arming and training non-Muslim civilians and forcing Rohingya families to remove protective fences around their homes, the independent group Fortify Rights said Thursday.
Read moreTexas Man Found Guilty of Setting Fire to Mosque
A South Texas man who derisively called Muslims “towelheads” faces up to 40 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him Monday for setting a mosque on fire.
Read moreClock Boy
A Texas appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit brought by “clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed, the black Muslim teenager arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that a teacher thought looked like a bomb, finding that he did not establish actual malice regarding statements made in the media about the incident.
Read moreAnti-Muslim Prejudice
The Council on American-Islamic Relations et al. sued Los Angeles in superior court for information on its cooperation with the federal Countering Violent Extremism program, which has stigmatized Muslims and other minorities.
Read moreTrump ‘Travel Ban’ Upheld by Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s so-called travel ban 5-4 Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor skewered the majority for turning a blind eye to what she called clear discrimination against Muslims.
Read moreMuslim Women Ejected From Cafe Reach Settlement
Seven Muslim women ejected from Southern California restaurant Urth Caffe in April 2016 obtained a settlement agreement Thursday requiring the restaurant chain to hold diversity trainings for its employees and update its seating policies.
Read moreDenmark Joins Some European Nations in Banning Burqa, Niqab
Denmark joined some other European countries in deciding Thursday to ban garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa.
Read moreModesty Accomodation
Citing reports by six Muslim women, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission claims in a federal complaint that Aviation Port Services stopped letting its female passenger service agents wear long skirts.
Read moreBerlin Court Upholds Ban on Teacher’s Headscarf in Classroom
A Berlin court has ruled that a law prohibiting a Muslim teacher from wearing a headscarf in a public school doesn’t violate her constitutional right to religious freedom.
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