Europe

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the removal of Iraq from the European Union’s list of countries with high risks in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing.The Foreign Ministry said in a statement, that the European Commission…

Green party politician and Germany’s new agriculture minister, Cem Özdemir, condemned the recent Islamophobic attack on a Muslim cemetery in the country’s northwest, the German Embassy in Turkey said on Tuesday. The embassy was referring to the tens of gravestones…

Unidentified persons sent postal letters containing caricatures of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny, to a number of mosques in the Netherlands.The Netherlands Religious Endowment (HDV) condemned, in a statement, sending such letters to…

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin condemned the “hateful acts and contrary to the values of the republic” against Muslims in the country.In a tweet, he called on his Twitter account, to support Muslims, following the targeting of a mosque in…

On Tuesday, December 28, 2021, the French authorities closed a mosque in the city of Beauvais, in the north of the country, on the pretext that the mosque’s sermons “incite hatred and violence and glorify jihad,” it said.The administration of…

Five MPs from France’s Republican Party have introduced a bill aiming to “make the signature of the Charter of Principles of Islam in France mandatory for all mosques in France.”The law also proposes “closing any mosque in case of refusal.”According…

The UN said Tuesday that its investigators had not been granted access to the Belarus-Polish border but their probe had uncovered “dire conditions” for migrants camped there.A UN rights office team had travelled to Poland from November 29 to December…

The Ministry of Migration and Displacement stressed that the migrants who do not wish to return need an international and diplomatic effort to adjust their legal status in line with humanitarian standards for human rights.The official spokesman for the Ministry…

A French court has sentenced a man to an eight-month suspended prison sentence for chanting “God is Great” in a supermarket in Saint-Etienne, central France, after hearing the news of the reopening of religious institutions in the north of the…

About 43 demonstrations were launched across France to condemn racism and demand a settlement of illegal immigrants, for fear of the “rising of far-right ideas” before the presidential elections scheduled for April 2022. About 7,500 people participated, including 2,300 in…