A political prisoner was sentenced to death in Iran after he participated in the 2022 protests against the Iranian government, which began in September after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested for improperly wearing her hijab and later found dead under police custody.
The French government is seeking to file charges against a high school student after she falsely accused her former principal of assaulting her after he made her remove her headscarf on school premises, according to the French prime minister.
France to sue student it says falsely accused principal of forcibly removing headscarf https://t.co/rIdCJJsKht
A major convenience store chain in Malaysia and its supplier are at the center of a controversy after a Malaysian court charged the store’s top executives and the supplier for hurting religious feelings after socks with the word “Allah” were found on sale in one of its shops.
Britain’s state-owned rail company found itself in hot water after one of its stations in London displayed an Islamic message on one of its signs as part of its Ramadan celebrations. The message called for “sinners” to repent.
A controversial pastor and activist in the United States is under fire again, this time for converting from Christianity to Islam along with his wife, citing the ongoing war in Gaza as the reason for his decision to convert to Islam.
A video of a fight between a young woman and an Islamic cleric in Iran went viral on social media after she caught the cleric filming her holding her baby while her hijab was loose in a clinic.
Iranian authorities will prosecute the individual who sent a video to Iran International TV depicting a scuffle over hijab at a clinic, leading to widespread outrage on social media.https://t.co/aNb2InvfKB
A refugee living in the United Kingdom will have her immigration status reviewed and could face possible deportation after appearing in a pro-Palestinian protest wearing a picture of a paraglider.
29-year-old Heba Alhayek was one of three women convicted last February under the UK’s Terrorism Act of 2000 after they displayed images of paragliders during a pro-Palestinian march in London on October 14 last year, just seven days after the October 7 attack by Hamas against Israel, which saw 1,200 Israelis killed and Hamas fighters cross the Israel-Gaza border using paragliders.
After a “radical” Tunisian imam made insulting comments against the tricolor, the French national flag, France’s interior ministry announced that they expelled the imam from the country.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) on February 22nd that he asked for an expulsion order to be issued for 53-year-old Mahjoub Mahjoubi after the imam appeared in a viral video where he seemed to have referred to the French flag as "satanic.”
