A conservative free speech group appeared successful Friday at persuading a Sixth Circuit panel that a Detroit-area public transit authority cannot ban its anti-Muslim ads for being overtly political.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi asked the United Nations’ highest court Thursday to drop a case accusing her country Mynamar of committing genocide against a Muslim minority group.
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Authorities deployed thousands of paramilitaries and blocked mobile internet in northeast India Thursday, and police fired blank rounds at protesters who defied a curfew to demonstrate against anti-Muslim citizenship legislation.
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Myanmar leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi returned to the United Nations’ highest court Wednesday to deny that her country is committing genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
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Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was told to “stop the genocide” of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims as she personally led her country’s defense at the UN’s top court on Tuesday.
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For years Romi Jan’s mornings would begin with the plaintive call to prayer that rang out from the central mosque in Kashmir’s largest city. The voice soothed her soul and made her feel closer to God.
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In a statement of incredible chutzpah, China said Monday that all the people at vocational training centers in China’s far west Xinjiang have “graduated” and are living happy lives. But Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities from the region say their family members continue to be arbitrarily detained in camps and prisons.
Read moreIndia’s parliament saw raucous scenes on Monday and protests raged in the northeast of the country as MPs debated legislation that would give citizenship to religious minorities from neighboring countries, but not Muslims.
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China on Wednesday warned that a “price must be paid” after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation seeking sanctions against senior Chinese officials for the crackdown on mainly Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang.
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India’s cabinet on Wednesday signed off on legislation that will give citizenship to certain religious minorities but not Muslims, in what critics call a fresh attempt to sideline the 200-million-strong Islamic community.
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Western governments including the United States said Tuesday that a cache of leaked documents proves that Chinese authorities are engaged in massive and systemic repression of Muslims and other minorities in western China.
Read moreAn Egyptian woman says she’s scored an important legal victory against her country’s inheritance laws, which grant female heirs half of what they grant men.
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The Supreme Court took up a case Friday involving Muslim men who say the FBI put them on a no-fly list because they would not serve as government informants.
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Myanmar said Wednesday its leader Aung San Suu Kyi will head the legal team contesting a genocide case filed against it in the International Court of Justice over the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims that set off their exodus to Bangladesh.
Read moreInternational Criminal Court judges on Thursday approved a request from prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
Read moreUighur activists said Tuesday they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain members of the ethnic group, and that Beijing could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of 1 million people.
Read moreAn Iranian beauty queen sought by Tehran on criminal charges has been granted political asylum in the Philippines, an official said Friday, ending a three-week standoff at Manila airport.
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has divorced her husband in Minnesota, a month after she filed a petition saying there was an “irretrievable breakdown” in their marriage.
Read moreA Fourth Circuit panel seemed willing Thursday to revive a Muslim inmate’s lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections over a ban on watching religious services on TV.
Read moreA federal court in Maryland ruled that most of a property developer’s claims against certain elected members of the Maryland House of Delegates may continue. The developer and other plaintiffs claim the delegates conspired with Hartford county to “thwart” a development project because “most of the prospective homebuyers are Muslim.”
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