The office of Turkish Airlines in Iran’s capital, Tehran, was closed down by Iranian police after female employees refused to wear the hijab in an act of defiance of the regime’s mandatory headscarf laws.
Under changes made by the German government to the country’s citizenship laws, people applying for naturalization would no longer need to give up their previous citizenship and could obtain it faster, but those applying for naturalization would be required to affirm Israel’s right to exist.
CNN: Germany demands new citizens accept Israel’s right to exist
Two adolescent boys in France were arrested and charged after allegedly raping and committing violence against a 12-year-old girl who was identified as Jewish, sparking outrage throughout the country as it prepares for snap parliamentary elections at the end of June and the beginning of July.
Indian authorities are investigating a suspected terrorist attack after militants opened fire at a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Shiv Khori cave temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir, plunging the vehicle into a deep gorge and killing nine and injuring 33 others.
An Iranian blogger, translator, literary editor, and social activist was arrested by Iranian authorities on June 4th and was accused of spying for Israel for posting a dot in response to a Tweet made last month by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
More than a year after he posted a video where he briefly narrated how the Egyptian government mistreated him and even prevented him from leaving the country by taking away his passport, Egyptian ex-Muslim and atheist Sherif Gaber faces a new challenge after an Egyptian court sentenced him to another five years in prison for criticizing Islam.
An openly lesbian Lebanese stand-up comic and LGBTQIA+ rights activist is facing criminal charges from Lebanon’s Islamic religious authorities on May 9th after her sketch about Muslim Friday prayers went viral and sparked controversy online.
After going through an arduous legal battle that lasted over four years since his arrest in April 2020 for blasphemy, a Court of Appeal in the northern Nigerian state of Kano reduced Mubarak Bala’s sentence from 24 to 5 years in prison on May 13th.
Around two weeks after they organized a demonstration in Hamburg in April, which included calls for a caliphate to be established in Germany, the Islamist group Muslim Interaktiv organized a new but strictly monitored rally on May 11th, where 2,300 people attended to protest against what they see is censorship against them by the German government.
