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Swedish prosecutors charge Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem with four counts of "offences of agitation against an ethnic or national group" after the two desecrated the Quran and made derogatory remarks about Muslims in Stockholm last year.
2024-08-28

Egypt calls for an immediate halt to the violence underway around this site, urging Israel to show respect for Muslim sacred sites while accusing it of fomenting these tensions.
2017-07-21

CNN denies authenticity of footage documenting its employees manufacturing a protest using unrepresentative Muslim actors. [http:--www.washingtontimes.com-news-2017-jun-5-brian-stelter-cnn-deny-network-staged-london-anti-- ("Washington Times") ]
2017-06-3

Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special human rights envoy to overwhelmingly Buddhist Myanmar, says more than 100,000 of the Muslim Rohingya minority remain in squalid camps they were forced to four years ago by violence. The government does not recognize most of these people as citizens, and has treated even long-term residents as illegal immigrants. Lee is encouraged by last March's peaceful transition to a democratically elected and civilian-led government.
2016-07-1

Thailand agrees to peace talks with Muslim rebels for the first time after 20 years of conflict.
2013-02-28

2011 Syrian uprising: Human Rights Watch issues a report claiming that Syrian Army soldiers have been issued orders to shoot protesters participating in demonstrations.
2011-07-9

Three muslim rebels are killed following a clash with government security forces in the Southern Philippines.
2011-01-26

Human Rights Watch accuses the Ethiopian government of withholding foreign aid from opposition supporters.
2010-10-19

A report from Human Rights Watch claims that the Israeli army unlawfully destroyed civilian property in the Gaza War of 2008 and 2009, while the Israeli army asserts they only targeted property used for combat or terrorist activities.
2010-05-13

Britain is set to ban a Muslim group, Al-Muhajiroun, also known as Islam4UK, that recently caused outrage by proposing a demonstration in the town that receives the bodies of British war dead killed abroad, the Home Office says.
2010-01-10