Ramadan starts on September 13th this year, devout Muslims respect the daily fast during this period, others have a less tight practice. Notwithstanding the practice, this particular time is an occasion to think about the place that religion, and this religion in particular has taken in prison. Religion has long played, and still does, an…
A Moroccan-born Dane was sentenced in Copenhagen to 3 1/2 years in prison on charges of inciting Muslims to holy war using videotapes, CDs and DVDs that included footage of beheadings in the Russian republic of Chechnya. Said Mansur was convicted of producing and distributing material containing “inflammatory, jihadist speeches” under anti-terrorism laws introduced after…
On Tuesday December 12th, in the enclave of Ceuta, the Spanish police arrested eleven people supposed to belong to an islamist cell in the process of formation, according to the Spanish minister of the interior. The group is made up of ten Spaniards and one Moroccan. Among them were two brothers of Hamed Abderrahmane, called…
FREIBURG – The author of an anti-Islam leaflet is sentenced to three months in prison by a Freiburg magistrate for defamation, threat, coercion and racial discrimination.
Milan — The guards, heavy brass keys swinging from their belts, open and shut the metal gates to each floor of the labyrinthine Bollate prison as the Muslim call to prayer echoes in the corridors. Prisoners rush to the makeshift mosques that have sprouted in every building. At the end of the hall on the…
