Hassan surveillance plaintiffs suffer a dismissal

The Council of Europe hosted the third joint roundtable promoting guidelines on countering intolerance and discrimination against Muslims. ODIHR, UNESCO and the Council of Europe brought educational...

A federal court invalidated Oklahoma’s amendment excluding Sharia and international law from state-court consideration. The ACLU and CAIR had supported Muslim plaintiffs’ challenge to a measure that...

Thousands marched in Montreal against a proposed charter restricting conspicuous religious symbols for public employees. Muslim women wearing religious dress joined the demonstration. The mobilization...

CAIR Philadelphia announced the availability of Legislating Fear, a CAIR and University of California, Berkeley report examining organized Islamophobia in the United States. It connected anti-Muslim...

Judge William Alsup ruled in favor of Malaysian scholar Rahinah Ibrahim in her challenge to mistaken watchlisting. The government was ordered to correct its records and disclose her current No Fly...

Fortify Rights published Policies of Persecution, using leaked official documents to examine restrictions imposed on Rohingya Muslims. The report described controls over movement, marriage and...

Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed an appeal on behalf of Muslim plaintiffs whose surveillance lawsuit had been dismissed. They challenged the treatment of religious...

After Quebec’s election, the National Council of Canadian Muslims called on the incoming government to rebuild relationships damaged by the values-charter debate. It urged an inclusive approach to...

The NYPD closed its Demographics Unit, subsequently known as the Zone Assessment Unit, which had mapped Muslim communities. Civil liberties advocates welcomed the closure while warning that it did not...

An OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights meeting in Vienna brought together governments, civil society and specialists to address hate crimes against Muslims. Participants...