After visiting Israeli soccer fans were chased and assaulted in the streets of Amsterdam following a soccer match last November, several people appeared at a Dutch court on December 11th for taking part in a night of violence that made headlines and sparked accusations of antisemitism.
An Iranian singer went viral after she live-streamed a historic virtual concert on YouTube where she performed without a hijab, despite the Islamic Republic’s efforts to pass a new, stricter law on hijab that many human rights organizations and activists have criticized.
Police searched the home of two students who serve as leaders of a chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at George Mason University in Virginia after they were accused of leading a group that vandalized the university’s student center. Authorities found firearms, pro-terrorism materials, and even flags of terrorist groups.
After the deadly October 7 attacks by Hamas that killed 1,200 Israelis and the war that followed that killed over 44,000 Gazans, many pro-Palestinian supporters took to the streets and set up encampments on campuses, campaigning for a “free Palestine.” But what would a liberation of Palestine look like, and what will happen after?
A man in northwestern Pakistan was arrested for allegedly insulting the Quran during a heated argument after police were alerted that an angry mob wanted to lynch the suspect.
Pakistan’s top body of clerics declared that virtual private networks or VPNs violate Islamic laws, Pakistani officials said on November 18th, as the country’s Ministry of Interior seeks to ban the service, which allows people to evade censorship in countries with strict Internet controls.
The Taliban carried out a shocking public execution of a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium in eastern Afghanistan, marking the sixth public execution carried out in the country after the Taliban seized power after the departure of US and NATO forces in 2021.
Controversy erupted in the Netherlands after violence sparked around a Europa soccer game match between the Netherlands’s Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, where Israeli soccer fans were reportedly targeted, harassed, and assaulted by hordes of young people allegedly provoked by calls on social media to target Jewish and Israeli people in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam.
Three men have been arrested and charged after violence broke out between pro-Khalistani extremists and Indian protesters at a series of demonstrations and clashes in Brampton and Mississauga in Ontario, Canada, on November 3rd.
Canadian authorities have charged three people following violence at a Hindu temple near Toronto. India's foreign ministry said "extremists and separatists" were behind the violence. pic.twitter.com/8fx23nY9lo
A young Iranian woman was arrested for stripping off her clothes in protest outside her university after she was reportedly assaulted and harassed for improperly wearing her hijab, considered to be a violation of the Islamic Republic’s strict hijab laws.
