A transgender candidate has been elected as councilor for a rural Bangladeshi town, the first in the ultra-conservative Muslim-majority nation where laws still discriminate against sexual minorities.
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China is destroying burial grounds where generations of Uighur families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what Uighurs call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group’s identity in Xinjiang.
Read moreA preliminary hearing in the International Criminal Court to decide whether to hold a trial for two former African officials accused of human rights violations was halted abruptly Wednesday, as the judges called for written responses from prosecutors.
Read moreThe defense team for one of two former Central African Republic officials accused of crimes against humanity began presenting their case Monday during a preliminary hearing before the International Criminal Court, arguing there is not sufficient evidence to hold a trial.
Read moreA preliminary hearing began Thursday in the International Criminal Court to determine if there is enough evidence to hold a trial against two former African officials accused of leading Christian militia members and directing attacks on Muslim civilians.
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The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Security was tightened Friday in the Indian state of Assam for the release of a citizens’ list that could lead to several million people becoming stateless, most of them Muslims, in a process the government wants to replicate nationwide.
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More than 2 million Muslims begin the annual hajj on Friday as the Saudi hosts seek to deter politicization of the pilgrimage against a backdrop of simmering Gulf tensions.
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A new Dutch law took effect Thursday banning face-covering clothing — including the burqa and niqab worn by conservative Muslim women — on public transportation, in government buildings, and at health and education institutions.
Read moreThe Dutch Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Netherlands’ liability for the deaths of hundreds of Muslim men killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, but reduced the amount of potential compensation for victims’ families.
Read moreA lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban targeting Muslim countries will move forward, a federal judge in Michigan ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe government has no duty to correct inaccurate or misleading information, including in a report that allegedly overstates the threat posed by Muslim immigrants, a federal judge said in court Thursday.
Read moreA German court has lifted a city’s ban on the burkini, an all-encompassing swimsuit used by some Muslim women.
Read moreThe North Carolina man charged with killing three much-admired Muslim university students pleaded guilty Wednesday, four years after the slayings.
Read moreA California middle schooler claims in court that his social studies teacher at Mesa Union School District refused to call him by his Arabic name and disseminated false information to the class, such as Islam permits Muslims to rape with the blessing of Allah.
Read moreMuslims across the world Tuesday began marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, one of the most celebrated holidays for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims and traditionally a time for family and festivities.
Read moreA county commission in Tennessee Monday unanimously resolved to support calls to censure a Memphis judge whose public Facebook posts disparaged immigrants, Muslims and linked to at least one article denying the Holocaust.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims by the International Refugee Assistance Project and others over President Donald Trump’s two executive orders and proclamation that largely banned “nationals of multiple predominantly Muslim nations” from entering the United States.
Read moreTwo Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for breaking Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act over reporting on security forces’ abuses of Rohingya Muslims were pardoned and released Tuesday.
Read moreA Denver landlord who was recorded telling her tenant to find an “American person … good like you and me” to sublease her property instead of a Muslim father and son seeking to open their second restaurant must pay the men $675,000 under a settlement.
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