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 Meat Solutions will pay $1.5 million to settle charges of discriminating against African and Muslim employees, the EEOC announced Friday.
Read moreThe 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 moreBeltway-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 moreThe 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 moreA 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 moreA 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 moreThe 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 moreAs 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 moreSeven 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 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 moreCiting 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 moreA 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.
Read moreWhen a Southern California woman was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence last year she was told she could not wear her headscarf in the Ventura County Jail even though she’s Muslim, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court Monday.
Read moreSkewering a government report that is supposed to substantiate the so-called travel ban, a pair of civil rights advocacy groups claim in a federal complaint that the deliberately deceptive study has been key to supporting a biased agenda.
Read moreThe Second Circuit revived a suit Wednesday involving three Muslims whose refusal to become FBI informants landed them on the no-fly list.
Read moreA U.N. Security Council delegation on Tuesday visited Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled military-led violence, and urged the government to improve the security conditions for the return of the refugees.
Read moreInsisting that the so-called travel ban was the result of a rigorous, neutral review process, not anti-Muslim animus, a lawyer for the government urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to uphold the executive order.
Read moreIn a case that will test the court’s deference to executive power, the Supreme Court will focus Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking immigration from several Muslim-majority countries.
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