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Activists accuse England police force of pressuring travel company to cancel trips to London to prevent pro-Palestine protest

The police force in England is accused of having contacted transport companies and asking them to cancel trips to London this weekend in order to prevent people from attending the massive pro-Palestine rally planned for Saturday. According to some accounts and posts on X, the coach company, Sleafordian Coaches – based in the eastern county of Lincolnshire – has been cancelling trips to London over the past few days which […]

9 November 2023

International

London protest demand Israel end attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque

Hundreds of demonstrators staged a protest Friday outside the Israeli Embassy in London against attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem, reports Anadolu Agency. Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and Jewish Voice for Labors were among the participants. Decrying recent Israeli attacks on Palestine, the crowd chanted slogans in solidarity with Palestinians, including, "Free Palestine." Along with Palestinian flags, protesters were carrying signs that read: "Stop arming Israel", "End Israeli Apartheid", […]

9 April 2023

International News

UK: Police officer suspended after kneeling on Black man’s neck

London's police force has suspended an officer pending an investigation after footage emerged of him kneeling on the side of a Black suspect's head and neck. Footage of the arrest in north London on Thursday shows two officers holding down the handcuffed man. At the beginning of the clip, one of the officers, who was white, appears to be applying pressure to the man's neck with his knee. The officer's […]

18 July 2020

Local

Mandla Mandela slams UK right-wingers wanting to remove Madiba’s statue in London

Nelson Mandela's grandson and ANC MP Mandla Mandela has slammed far-right protesters in Britain who are calling for Madiba's statue to be removed from Parliament Square in London. He described them as oppressors who spew hateful speech. The threats to attack the statue of the first black South African president and anti-apartheid activist, comes in the wake of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that have recently been targeting statues symbolising […]

19 June 2020

International News

Why thousands are expected to stand up to racism in London

Thousands are expected to join an anti-racism march in London aimed at protesting against far-right groups in the UK and Europe. The Stand Up To Racism event, scheduled to begin in central London at 12:00GMT on Saturday, will see campaigners and activists calling out institutional racism against migrants ethnic minorities. Demonstrations are expected to spread across the UK and European Union, with marches expected in Cardiff and Glasgow, as well […]

16 March 2018

International News

Finsbury Park attacker Darren Osborne jailed for life

A British court has sentenced the man who carried out a deadly vehicle ramming attack near a mosque in London last year to life in prison. In June, Darren Osborne killed one worshipper and wounded several others in the Finsbury Park area of North London while the area was busy with worshippers leaving late evening prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. On Friday, a judge sentenced Osborne to […]

3 February 2018

News

Assange granted Ecuadorian citizenship

The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was made an Ecuadorian citizen last month, the nation’s foreign ministry has revealed, in an attempt to resolve the political impasse over his continued presence in the UK. The 46-year-old has been naturalised after living for five and a half years in the cramped, Latin American country’s embassy in Knightsbridge, central London. Earlier this week the UK’s Foreign Office revealed that Ecuador had asked for […]

12 January 2018

International News

Van rams musallees leaving London masjid, killing one

A van ploughed into worshippers leaving a London mosque early Monday, killing at least one person and injuring several in what Britain's largest Muslim organisation said was a deliberate act of Islamophobia. The Muslim Council of Britain said the vehicle hit people as they were leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque, one of the biggest in the country. The attack comes during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when people attend […]

19 June 2017

International News

London Fire: Muslims Beginning Ramadan Fast May Have Saved Lives In Grenfell Tower

Muslims who were awake because they were beginning their Ramadan fast “saved people’s lives” when a deadly blaze broke out at a west London tower block, HuffPost UK has been told. At least 50 people have been taken to five hospitals for treatment as hundreds of residents in the 27-storey, 120 flat, Grenfell Tower in north Kensington have been evacuated from their flats in the building that caught fire just […]

15 June 2017

London

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