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By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least four policemen, including a senior officer, were killed in a terrorist attack in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the country’s interior minister confirmed on Thursday. “Deputy Superintendent of Police Iqbal Mohmand along with three other police personnel have been martyred,” said Rana Sanaullah in a statement. Last night, […]

18th Feb 2023

Pakistan: 7 dead as terrorists storm police HQ in Karachi

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least seven people, including three suspected militants, have been killed and nineteen others injured after heavily armed terrorists stormed the police headquarters in the port city of Karachi on Friday evening, officials and local media reported. A group of at three assailants who stormed the compound at 7.10 […]

25th Dec 2020

Germany: Police cuff Muslim woman for not wearing mask

By Mesut Zeyrek COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – Police in a Western German city handcuffed a woman in a Muslim headscarf in front of her toddler and put her on the ground for not wearing a mask, as seen in video that recently went viral. According to the video taken by eyewitnesses in the city of […]

8th Nov 2020

France: 4 Muslim children ‘terrorized’ by police for 11 hours

By Umit Donmez PARIS (AA): This week four elementary school children were “terrorized” and grilled during more than 11 hours of detention by French police over false allegations of “justifying terrorism,” according to the children’s parents. The police “clearly wanted to terrorize us,” said Servet Yildirim, the father of one of the children. Under a […]

21st Aug 2020

UK: Ethnic groups say UK police biased against them

LONDON (AA): In Britain, police and the justice system are biased against two-thirds of the minority ethnic population, a new poll has suggested. The poll by campaign group Hope Not Hate came after months of Black Lives Matter protests across the UK following the murder of George Floyd by a policeman in the US. According […]

11th Aug 2020

India: Islamophobic drift in Indian police, says women’s rights group

By Cheena Kapoor NEW DELHI (AA): A prominent Indian women group has charged Delhi police using a chemical agent and molesting female students of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Delhi-based central university in February. The students were protesting against new citizenship law, believed to be against the interests of the country’s Muslim community. The fact-finding […]

21st Jul 2020

Belgium: Death of Algerian in police custody triggers outrage

By Agnes Szucs BRUSSELS (AA): The death of a man of Algerian background after being arrested by Belgian police has triggered an investigation, with some members of the public drawing comparisons to the choking death in police custody this May of George Floyd in the US. A footage which was shared on social media […]

7th Nov 2019

France: 42% of Muslims harassed at least once

By Yusuf Ozcan PARIS (AA): A poll said on Wednesday that 42% of Muslims in France were harassed at least once in their lives. The survey published by the French Public Opinion Institute (IFOP) said most racial harassment occurred during police controls, job applications and house rentals. 60% of Muslim women who wear headscarf […]

27th Jun 2019

Tunisia: Twin suicide attacks target kills policeman in Tunis

By Adel al-Thabeti TUNIS (AA):- At least one policeman was killed and eight others were injured in two suicide bombings that targeted police in the Tunisian capital, witnesses and a ministry said. The witnesses told Anadolu Agency that the first suicide blast targeted a police vehicle at the crossing of France Street and the […]

29th Apr 2019

Afghanistan: Eight police killed in Taliban attack

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – A Taliban attack on police station Sunday killed eight police and left five others wounded in western Ghor province of Afghanistan, according to local officials. Speaking to the press, Habibuhlah Radmanish, the deputy governor of Ghor province said eight police were killed and five others wounded […]

9th Jul 2016

US on edge after police killings

NEW YORK (AA) – The U.S. is reeling Friday from a week of violence that started with fatal police-involved shootings of black men and ended in a coordinated attack on police in Dallas that killed five officers. “We are hurting,” Dallas Police Chief David Brown said during a press conference early Friday. “We are […]

7th Jul 2016

US: Tensions rising after black man killed by police

NEW YORK (AA) – The governor of Louisiana said Wednesday that he has “very serious concerns” about the fatal shooting of a black man by police in Baton Rouge that has set off civil rights protests in the city. John Bel Edwards promised an independent investigation and said the Justice Department would be involved, indicating […]

4th Jun 2016

India: Two dozen killed in violence in Uttar Pradesh

By Ahmad Adil NEW DELHI (AA): Two dozen people were killed, including two police officers, when violence erupted in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday after police attempted to evict illegal squatters. According to local officials, the violence occurred when police arrived to evict illegal squatters — believed to be members of […]

27th May 2016

Iraq: Seven Iraqi troops killed north of Baghdad

By Ibrahim Saleh BAGHDAD (AA): Six Iraqi army and police personnel were killed Thursday in an attack north of Baghdad, a police officer said. Major General Nadir al-Janabi told Anadolu Agency that a joint force from the army and police were attacked by a sniper while searching a home in Basatin al-Tarmia district, located […]

3rd Nov 2015

Rohingya Council calls for Rohingya ‘genocide’ inquiry

By Satuk Bugra Kutlugun ANKARA (AA): The European Rohingya Council has underlined its support for a report that claims that Myanmar’s government, army and police are responsible for genocide against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, and has reiterated its call for an investigation by the United Nations. The analysis — released last week by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale […]

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