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By Mutasim Billah DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Fourteen people including nine children died when a fishing vessel carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar capsized Thursday in the Bay of Bengal near Inani beach of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar city, a local administration official said. The incident happened at around 4.30 p.m. local time (1030GMT), Mohabbat Khan told […]

28th Sep 2017

UN concerned French terror law could affect Muslims civil rights

By Ilker Girit (AA): UN experts on Wednesday warned France to comply with international human rights obligations while debating a new anti-terror law. France’s draft law “may perpetuate the emergency measures introduced in 2015, and establish a permanent state of emergency,” analysts from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) […]

18th Sep 2017

Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights violations in Occupied Palestinian Territory

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (30 August – 13 September 2017) Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) A Palestinian civilian from al-Dheishah refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, succumbed to his wounds. 10 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, were wounded in the West Bank […]

14th Sep 2017

Myanmar: Trawler carrying Rohingya Muslims sinks near Bangladesh, 2 children dead

By Mutasim Billah DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): A trawler carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar capsized Tuesday in the Naf River on the border with Bangladesh, leaving two children dead. “A Rohingya trawler sank while entering Bangladesh from Myanmar. There were 18 passengers on board… There are still 11 missing,” the Bangladesh daily Prothom Alo quoted […]

13th Sep 2017

Myanmar: 200,000 Rohingya Muslim children need urgent support

By Mutasim Billah DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): More than 200,000 Rohingya children, who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, are at risk and they need urgent support, UNICEF said Tuesday. “This is a growing humanitarian crisis and children are at the heart of this crisis,” Jean Lieby, chief of Child Protection of UNICEF Bangladesh, said in […]

12th Sep 2017

Myanmar: UN: 310,000 Rohingya Muslims flee, textbook example of ethnic cleansing

By Bayram Altug GENEVA (AA): More than 310,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, a UN spokesperson said Monday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency in Geneva, Duniya Aslam Khan, a spokeswoman for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said the number of Rohingya Muslims who had crossed the border from Myanmar into […]

5th Sep 2017

Indonesia offers formula to end violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

By Hayati Nupus, Iqbal Musyaffa JAKARTA (AA): Indonesia’s visiting foreign minister on Monday proposed to Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi a formula to bring an end to ongoing violence in the restive Rakhine state. Rento Marsudi’s proposal came in the form of a “4+1” formula to end violence against the country’s […]

7th Jul 2017

Palestine: Israel continues to reduce power supply to impoverished Gaza

By Nour Abu Aisha GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel has reduced the electricity supply to the blockaded Gaza strip from 120 to 55 megawatts, a reduction of more than 45 percent, Gaza’s energy authority said Thursday. “Ongoing power reductions by Israel are adding further burdens to Gaza’s already suffering population, especially in light […]

7th Jul 2017

Bangladesh: Rights watch says to stop enforced disappearances

ANKARA, Turkey (AA): Bangladesh law enforcement agencies have illegally detained hundreds of people including opposition activists since 2013, and held them in secret without producing them before courts, according to a Human Rights Watch report on Thursday. Titled “‘We Don’t Have Him’: Secret Detentions and Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh”, the 82-page report found that at […]

1st Jun 2017

Myanmar: Protests at Buddhist monks forced closure of madrasahs

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar (AA): Muslim residents in Myanmar’s largest city Wednesday protested the closure of their two religious schools as they have fewer place for worship in the month of Ramadan — the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Local authorities — following negotiations with local Muslim leaders […]

29th May 2017

Jammu & Kashmir: Indian army chief dares Kashmiri protesters to shoot

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): An Indian Army chief on Sunday has said he wished Kashmiri protesters pick up guns instead of rocks, to provide the Indian army with a better excuse to retaliate. Civilian protests against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir has seen thousands of people armed with rocks. […]

18th Apr 2017

Jammu & Kashmir: Dozens of Kashmiris wounded in clash with Indian forces

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): Indian armed forces injured dozens of Kashmiris Monday when they clashed with thousands of pro-independence students who walked out of their schools, colleges and university campuses in Jammu and Kashmir. The students, who termed the Indian rule in the region as “military occupation”, were reacting […]

28th Feb 2017

Myanmar army ‘systematically’ abused Rohingya Muslims: report

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar (AA): Myanmar’s military committed “systematic” abuses against Rohingya Muslims during recent operations in troubled Rakhine State, according to a report released Monday. The rape of more than 70 Rohingya women and girls by Myanmar security forces was witnessed since early October, according to the report based on interviews […]

11th Feb 2017

Palestine: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights violations in Occupied Territory

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) : Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (02 -08 February 2016) 5 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Israeli warplanes carried out 4 airstrikes against civilian objects and sites related to the Palestinian […]

28th Jan 2017

US: Trump signs executive order limiting refugee entry

NEW YORK (AA): President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to limit the flow of refugees into the country, delivering on one of his most controversial campaign promises. The order was called “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” and contained a temporary entry ban that would affect citizens of […]

14th Jan 2017

Europe: Refugees facing harsh winter conditions, warns UN

By Fatih Erel GENEVA (AA): The UN’s refugee agency on Friday expressed deep concern at the situation of refugees and migrants struggling with life-threatening winter conditions across Europe. “We are deeply worried at the situation of some 1,000 people, including families with young children, who continue to live under unheated tents and dormitories in […]

25th Dec 2016

Palestine: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights violations in Occupied Palestinian Territory

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (15 – 21 December 2016) Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (PCHR): Jerusalem: On 19 December 2016, Israeli Forces Demolish Commercial Facility in Shaikh Jarrah Neighborhood Belonging to Adnan Harhash. Jerusalem: On 19 December 2016, Israeli Forces […]

9th Sep 2016

World ‘ignoring Bangladeshi executions’

By Tayfun Salci LONDON (AA): The international community — with the notable exception of Turkey — is standing silent as opposition figures in Bangladesh are being abducted and killed, the son of one of the country’s leading dissents has told Anadolu Agency. Salman al-Azami, a Liverpool-based academic whose father Ghulam Azam led the now-banned […]

12th Aug 2016

Palestine: Israeli humanrights violations in occupied territories

Imemc: PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt (04– 10 August 2016): Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) continued during the reporting period (04 – 10 August 2016). Shooting: Israeli forces have continued to commit crimes, inflicting civilian casualties. They have […]

18th Jul 2016

Bahraini court dissolves main Shia Muslim group

By Ahmed al-Masri DOHA (AA): A Bahrain court on Sunday ordered the country’s main Shia Muslim group dissolved and its assets seized. The Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments said the ruling to dissolve Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society was in light of the ministry’s request to dissolve the group, according to the official […]

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.