Hate Crime

Hate crimes surge in Canada during pandemic

Canada has experienced a sharp rise in hate crimes targeting religion, sexual orientation and race since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released this week by Statistic…

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Stadium bans to be given to fans convicted of online hate crime in UK

June 29 (Reuters) - Fans convicted of football-related online hate crime can now be banned from attending matches, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said on Wednesday. British courts could previously only…

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U.S. Sikh group demands probe of possible hate bias in deadly Indianapolis FedEx rampage

April 17 (Reuters) - Half of the eight workers shot to death at an Indianapolis FedEx facility by a former employee before he killed himself belonged to the Sikh religious community, leading an advocacy group to urge…

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The Israeli Shin Bet calls on rabbis, teachers for help

Shin Bet (the Israel internal security agency) officials met with several rabbis and educators from the religious-Zionist sector to discuss a recent surge in hate crimes, according to KAN. The…

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Hate crime victims disadvantaged by gaps between hate crime legislation and implementation, OSCE human rights head says

Marking the International Day for Tolerance on 16 November with the publication of its annual hate crime dataset, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) urges countries…

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Facebook to restrict livestream feature

Facebook announced that it will restrict who can use the company's livestream tool in an effort to limit its use to "cause harm or spread hate". Facebook said that…

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Mosques in Birmingham the target of vandal attacks

Four mosques in Birmingham were attacked overnight and had their windows smashed with a sledgehammer. A mosque in Birchfield Road, another in Slade Road, Erdington, and in Witton Road, Aston,…

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10% of Church of England clergy victims of violent anti-Christian hate crime

One in ten members of the Church of England clergy has been the victim of violent behaviour in the last two years, a government-funded survey has found. The Telegraph reports that the…

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