Nine suspects, deemed Islamist militants, went on trial in Paris accused of plotting bomb attacks. Safe Bourada, 38, the suspected leader of the group, served a 10-year sentence for his role in Islamist attacks in France in 1995. Prosecutors claim he recruited most of the defendants while in prison. Full-text article continues here. (Some news…
U.K. prosecutors will retry seven British Muslims who they claim conspired to blow up several passenger planes bound for North America from London after a jury days ago failed to reach a verdict. The men will be retried for conspiring to kill passengers by detonating homemade liquid-based bombs on trans-Atlantic flights, Ken Macdonald, the U.K.’s…
Ending a controversial 20-year campaign to expel immigrants because of their ties to alleged Palestinian terrorists, the federal government has agreed to drop attempts to deport the final two defendants in the L.A. 8 case. The Board of Immigration Appeals on Tuesday dismissed all charges against Khader M. Hamide and Michel I. Shehadeh, who had…
HALDE (Authority to fight discrimination and promote equality) Decision on difference between Muslim and Hinduist pupils in a school canteen. Plaintiffs invoke a discrimination based on a lack of proteic meat substitute. Since plaintiffs and defendants first agreed on a mediation phase, the HALDE confirmed that an agreement had to be reached between the parties.
Four men went on trial Wednesday on charges of making bombs for a planned terror attack, exactly a year after they were arrested in a terror sweep in central Denmark. The defendants, who cannot be named under a court order, are accused of purchasing chemicals and laboratory equipment to produce explosives. All pleaded innocent. They…
