Tag: Islamophobia

Southeast Asia

Rohingya refugees tarred with narco-stigma

The Rohingya Muslim people of Burma, facing genocide in their homeland, have fled by the thousands to Bangladesh—where they are not being welcomed. Long confined to refugee camps near the border, they now face forcible relocation to an uninhabited offshore island. Shunted from one region to another, they are targeted by the predictable propaganda—stigmatized as Muslim terrorists in Burma, they are now stigmatized by Bangladesh authorities as drug-traffickers.

North America

Supreme Court to review Trump travel ban

The US Supreme Court agreed to review the Trump administration's travel ban, partially lifting the temporary injunction that had blocked the ban's enforcement.

Southeast Asia

Burma: Suu Kyi bars Rohingya investigation

De facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi rejected a decision by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate crimes by Burma's security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.

North America

States challenge Trump’s revised travel ban

Massachusetts has joined Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, and New York in suing to block President Trump's revised travel ban as unconstitutional under the Equal Protection clause.

New York City

NYPD reaches new deal in surveillance lawsuit

The New York Police Department reached a new settlement providing greater oversight of intelligence-gathering programs, after a federal judge rejected an earlier deal.

Central Asia

Anti-terror ‘security state’ in Xinjiang

The Uighur people of China's Xinjiang province are coming under unprecedented surveillance and militarization amid official fears of terrorism in the far-western region.

North America

Trump admin’s Hungarian fascist connection?

Trump assistant Sebastian Gorka wears the medal of the Hungarian Order of Heroes, listed by the State Department as having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.