1 week ago Man who burned Koran outside Turkish embassy while shouting 'f*** Islam' found guilty of public order offence

A man who set fire to a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence.

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1 week ago Judge set to pass verdict after trial of man who burned Koran

Hamit Coskun, 50, was on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week.

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1 week ago Man, 50, who set fire to the Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London says he never would have come to Britain if he 'knew this country does not have free speech'

A protestor who set fire to a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London said he would not have come to Britain had he known free speech was 'under threat here'.

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1 week ago KHADIJA KHAN: I don't approve of burning books, but the man on trial for setting fire to a Koran has a right to protest, whatever Islamists and their apologists say

As a child, Islam was weaponised to keep independent-thinking women like me, and anyone who opposes the fundamentalists, in their place by fear, writes KHADIJA KHAN.

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2 w. ago Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased’ by maximum sentence for attacker

The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the trial around the 2022 attack in New York.

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3 w. ago Joe Biden wanted to testify at Hunter’s trial – despite packed election schedule, book claims

Former president wanted to testify on behalf of his son despite being a sitting president in the middle of a presidential campaign, a new book says

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