Two years ago, four Uighurs were released from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay. They belonged to a Muslim minority group in China who had traveled to Pakistan via Afghanistan because they alleged they had suffered human rights abuses in their home country. In 2000, Pakistani police arrested the men and transferred them to…
A Canadian federal court judge ordered the conditional release of a Syrian terror suspect who has spent more than seven years in custody without being formally charged. Justice Richard Mosley said in a written statement that the continued detention of Hassan Almrei — accused of being a threat to national security — can no longer…
A Turkish couple is fighting the placement of their three children in Dutch lesbian foster family, saying that they do not want the children to “learn homosexuality” because it does not fit with their Islamic notions of sexuality. The children were taken out of custody after suspicion of child abuse. Their mother allegedly let a…
German federal police arrested two men Tuesday, Nov. 25, for operating a radical Islamist website and they are likely to face charges of supporting terrorism, prosecutors said. The German-language website, GIMF, which stands for Global Islamic Media Front, contained videos from al-Qaeda, Mesopotamian al-Qaeda and the radical group Ansar al-Islam. It also contained two videos…
A suspected Syrian terrorist who has spent seven years in custody in Canada is claiming that his indefinite detention without charge or trial amounts to cruelty. Hassan Almrei has argued in Canadian Federal court that this lengthy incarceration violates his constitutional rights. Almrei has arrested after September 11, 2001 and is one of five Muslim…
