The Board of Immigration Appeals failed to account for evidence of changed country conditions when it declined to reopen an asylum request for two practicing Catholics from Indonesia who overstayed their non-immigrant visas in the U.S, the Second Circuit ruled. The two offered sufficient proof of the rise of hardline non-Muslim sentiment and persecution of Christians in the country.
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Chatitze Molla Sali already knew that she’d won the right to inherit her Muslim husband’s full estate two years ago but she had to wait until Thursday to find out just how much the Greek government would have to pay her for illegally denying it to her.
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Finding a federal judge misunderstood the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in a similar case, a Fourth Circuit panel on Monday threw out a renewed challenge to President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries.
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At a Michigan gas station, the message is obvious — at least to Arabic speakers: Be counted in the 2020 census.
Read moreA federal court in Massachusetts granted default judgment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a suit against Aviation Port Services, which fired six Muslim women after denying them a religious accommodation to its uniform policy. The women, who worked at Boston’s Logan Airport, were not permitted to wear long skirts and were fired for refusing to wear knee-length skirts or pants.
Read moreThe Muslim owner of a tire shop in Paradise, California that was incinerated in the Camp Fire sued Nationwide Insurance in Butte County Court, claiming its adjuster responded to his expert’s claim for $175,000 by saying: “I am not paying either your bid or our bid. That Arab doesn’t need more money!”
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Muslims in a northeastern neighborhood of India’s capital returned for weekly prayers at fire-bombed mosques Friday, two days after a 72-hour clash between Hindus and Muslims left at least 40 dead and hundreds injured.
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Germany’s highest court ruled Thursday that a Muslim law clerk can be prevented from wearing a headscarf during court proceedings.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for calm Wednesday after Delhi’s worst sectarian violence in decades left at least 20 people dead and nearly 200 injured.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Bulgaria to halt its deportation of a group of Uighur refugees, on the grounds that they could be tortured or killed by Chinese authorities.
Read moreGerman police raided locations across the country early Friday in a probe against an extreme-right group suspected of planning “attacks on politicians, asylum-seekers and people of Muslim faith,” prosecutors said.
Read morePatrick Eddington, with the Cato Institute, sued the FBI for information on Operation Vulgar Betrayal, its surveillance of “mosques, schools, and community meetings in Bridgeview, Illinois,” in a federal FOIA complaint.
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The Trump administration expanded its controversial travel ban to six new countries Friday, sparking widespread condemnation from civil rights groups who claim the new restrictions are motivated not by national security but anti-Muslim bias.
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A Fourth Circuit panel seemed unlikely Tuesday to allow a discovery request in an ongoing fight between immigration rights advocates and President Donald Trump over his 2017 travel ban.
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In the Indian capital’s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood, beside open sewers and dangerously dangling electricity wires, a group of Muslim women in colorful headscarves sit in resistance to a new citizenship law that has unleashed protests across the country.
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The U.N.’s highest court ordered Myanmar on Thursday to take immediate measures to protect Rohingya Muslims from acts of genocide.
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The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by President Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations.
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The European Union refused to take part in a rare diplomatic visit to Indian Kashmir starting Thursday because they will not be allowed to meet detained politicians, reports said.
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Sometimes Arshad Hussain disappears. He will be sitting on the bed, watching relatives, neighbors and journalists pour into his house when suddenly scenes of his dead son wash over him.
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In remote Indian Kashmir people have been offline since August, queuing for hours to pay bills or using government “internet kiosks.” As protests rage in other areas of India, it’s something people outside the Himalayan region are also getting a taste of.
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