Europe

A Muslim man’s body has been cremated in Germany after a hospital in Hannover has mixed up two dead bodies. Abdulkadir Sargin, a Turkish citizen, died at the emergency service of the Hannover Medical School Hospital last week, officials have…

The European Parliament called on the Bahraini authorities to immediately and unconditionally release human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, who is sentenced to life imprisonment, and other detained political activists. Al-Khawaja has so far spent 12 years in prison, on the…

On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions on the respect for human rights in China, Chad and Bahrain. In China, MEPs express their support for protesters fighting for fundamental rights who are being persecuted by the Chinese government, notably…

Members of South Lanarkshire Council have ratified a motion which tries to confront growing Islamophobia as well as other forms of racism and discrimination in the area. At a full council meeting last week, councilor Ali Salamati brought forward a…

Italy, which has vowed a tough line on immigration, took in more than 500 refugees as two charity rescue ships were allowed to dock at ports in the south after several days at sea in bad weather. The Geo Barents…

Thousands of migrants were beaten, humiliated and arbitrarily detained at the EU’s external borders before being illegally pushed back, a new report by a group of human rights organizations has revealed. The Border Violence Monitoring Network has documented hundreds of…

There has been no improvement in the situation of Muslim students grappling with ongoing discrimination in German schools, said a leading human rights official. “We see a need for action in this area and I have not noticed that the…

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) condemned the racist practices committed against Muslims in Sweden, expressing its strong condemnation and calling on the authorities to work to reduce these violations and punish the perpetrators. In a statement received by Shia…

The Faculty of International Relations at the Spanish Juan Carlos University, in cooperation with the Aal al-Bayt Foundation, held a symposium entitled ‘The Impact of Arabic Manuscripts on Spanish Culture,’ with the participation of researchers, thinkers and academics. The symposium…

The representative of the Shirazi Religious Authority and President of the International Islamic Council, Sheikh Salih Sibaway, continued his visits to a number of active religious and political figures in the Republic of Kosovo, which received great resonance at the…