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.
A Houthi court has sentenced nine Yemeni men to death in a mass trial based on “dubious” charges of sodomy last March, which follows after the radical Shia Islamist group sentenced 13 men to death for homosexuality in February.
Nine men sentenced to death by 'crucifixion and stoning' for alleged sodomy by Houthi courthttps://t.co/CgoouUVQ3r
Russia has experienced its worst terror attack in decades after radical Islamic militants dressed in camouflage uniforms brazenly opened fire at a music venue and reportedly threw explosive devices inside the concert hall, which was left in flames and its roof collapsing after the terror attack.
A chilling, new counter-extremism report from an independent commission reveals that “anti-blasphemy activism” is slowly “gaining momentum” in the United Kingdom, warning that it is becoming "increasingly radicalized" and is being promoted by charities.
A Tamil Nadu-based podcast, Schumy Vanna Kaviyangal, or SVK, has seen increased harassment from Islamist groups. The harassment eventually escalated into death threats.
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
In a fresh crackdown on extremism and antisemitism amidst the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, the British government unveiled plans to ban hate preachers with extremist Islamist views from entering the United Kingdom.
Hate preachers are to be banned from entering the UK
With the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas entering its fifth month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he would seek ways to end exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from entering mandatory military service in the face of an ongoing war and increasing political pressure both at home and abroad.
Just weeks after the northern state of Uttarakhand in India passed a uniform civil code (UCC) that unified personal laws on marriage and divorce and banned certain practices such as polygamy and child marriage, another northern Indian state made an unprecedented move to repeal a colonial-era law on Muslim marriage and divorce to ban child marriage.
A well-known Hindu nationalist organization went to court to prevent two lions named after a 16th-century Mughal emperor and a Hindu deity from sharing a zoo enclosure in the state of West Bengal.
Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India https://t.co/EevKjGvU4i