BALKANS:  Sentences Bring the Spotlight on Islamists
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BELGRADE, Jan. 23 (IPS) - The sentencing of three young Muslims to a total of  40 years in prison has raised new concern over the spread of  militant Islam in the Balkans.
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PARIS: With concern growing about radical Islam in their midst, governments in western Europe are debating how to ensure that Muslim prayer leaders preach in the local language and spread messages of moderation rather than hate.
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Some of those accused of Âinsulting TurkishnessÂ say the law is forcing a national debate about what it means to be a democracy.
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When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.
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On one hand there is the European Union, demanding Turkey reform its criminal code. On the other, a powerful group of conservative Muslims who insist such changes should include criminalizing adultery.
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One  night in 2003, on the wintry streets of Kosovo, a group of thugs stalked and beat Gramoz Prestreshi almost to death. Police in the war-scarred Balkan province laughed and called him names. The emergency room workers made him mop up his own blood. It was a sordid but hardly unusual episode in...
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Many nations are hells on earth for political and religious prisoners. Among them: Iran, North Korea, Cuba and one of the very worst Uzbekistan under the ferocious rule of Islam Karimov.
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Insult Islam at your peril An Egyptian blogger found guilty of insulting both Islam and the country's president has been jailed for four years, Reuters reports.â¦
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Politics: 19 January 2005, Wednesday. The European Court of Human Rights found Bulgaria guilty of ill-treating a prisoner, it was officially announced on Wednesday.
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An Uzbek court has sentenced journalist to six years in jail for extortion, human rights groups said on Friday, condemning the trial as an attempt to silence free speech.
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MADRID (International Herald-Tribune) - As a verdict was due here Wednesday in the biggest Islamic terrorism trial in Europe, the government put security forces on alert and prepared new memorial services for the 191 people who were killed when 10 bombs packed with nails exploded on commuter trains in this capital on March 11, 2004. A three-judge panel was set to read out the verdicts and sentences after nearly five months of testimony by hundreds of witnesses, a spider's web of arguments by more than 40 attorneys and sporadic hunger strikes by several of the 28 defendants - most of them young Muslim men of North African origin who are accused of executing the plot out of allegiance to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
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Outspoken criticism of Muslim extremists and Egypt's president earns an Egyptian man a four-year prison sentence. By the Associated Press.
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ISTANBUL -- A Turkish court sentenced seven people, including a Syrian Al Qaeda militant, to life in prison yesterday for suicide bomb attacks on Jewish and British targets in Istanbul that killed more than 60 people in 2003.
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Cases like this embolden extremists and provide them an opportunity to advocate for their worldview.
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In Indonesia, the crumbling prosecution case against alleged terror leader Abu Bakar Bashir has gotten a boost. A confessed senior member of the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) gave a
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Pilot projects to root out Islamist extremists grooming young Muslims are being planned for British cities.
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A Turkish court handed down life sentences to seven Al-Qaeda associates for their involvement in deadly suicide bombings against Jewish and British targets in Istanbul in 2003.