A Singapore court has convicted a Christian couple for handing out a particular brand of religious tracts to Muslims.  The pair could be fined or even imprisoned.
A Singapore court Thursday has found a Christian couple guilty for distributing seditious and objectionable publications to Muslims, media reports said. Between March and December 2007, Ong Kian Cheong, [...]

Prince Edward Island’s Human Rights Commission may have nine staff members to police a population of 140,000, making it, as Ezra Levant pointed out, proportionately over ten times larger than the Canadian Human Rights Commission, but it’s not busy enough for at least one Islander. After PEI’s HRC rejected her claim of discrimination in [...]

Cry me a river.
Alexander Beers is charged with impaired driving causing death in connection with the death of a 14-year-old Moncton girl in July 2007. He has told a judge that the RCMP violated his rights on the night he was arrested, but the RCMP rejects his version of events.
James Fowler, Beers’s lawyer, said [...]

A man charged with criminal negligence causing death following a street-racing incident was supposed to be under house arrest at the time.
One of the men charged after a woman died in a racing incident in eastern Newfoundland earlier this month had been instructed to stay at home under house arrest, CBC News has learned.
Ryan Watkins, [...]

A British judge went out of his way to denounce “honour” crimes in a case involving three children of Pakistani descent being cared for by a non-Muslim family. The children’s mother is in prison for setting her sister-in-law’s house on fire in a dispute involving alleged violations of family honour. The father [...]

A report prepared by the Council of Europe reveals that murders of women by family members are more prevalent than previously thought.  The report was discussed at a meeting in Istanbul.
The draft report calls for immediate action to deal with what it describes as the growing problem of honor killings. British member of parliament John [...]

A British Muslim mother has been sentenced to three years for forcing her school-age daughters to marry cousins in Pakistan.
A Muslim mother who forced her two daughters to marry their cousins in Pakistan has been jailed for three years and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register.
She told her elder daughter that if she didn’t [...]

Jennifer McSwain of Hay River, Northwest Territories, is one happy lady because the NWT Human Rights Commission has ruled in her favour.   She complained that the territory’s Department of Justice discriminated against her because of her marital status when the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre (SMCC) refused to allow inmates to remove snow at her home.
She [...]

Hasibullah Sidiqi is on trial in Ottawa for shooting to death his sister and her fiancé. He does not deny the homicides, but claims he was justified because his sister had offended family honour by becoming engaged without their father’s consent. In effect, says Mr Sidiqi, he was provoked by his sister’s actions—a [...]

RCMP last week arrested Savita Singh, a 43-year-old Guyanese woman, together with three Ontario residents, on charges of conspiracy to violate immigration laws by smuggling two Guyanese into the United States.
Four years ago, she was convicted in a US court on similar charges.
The Canadian charges are similar to trouble Singh faced in Maine in 2005.
According [...]

Hasibullah Sadiqi is on trial in Ottawa for shooting to death his sister and her fiancé in 2006. His defence seeks to establish offended honour as a mitigating factor in a murder case.
The Crown contends there will be evidence that the slaying was an honour killing rooted in anger over their engagement, while Sadiqi’s [...]

A Glasgow jewellery shop has decided to bar individuals wearing face coverings after being robbed by two men in Muslim female dress. BBC News reports.
ATAA Jewellers in the west end of Glasgow was raided by two Asian men entirely covered apart from their eyes.
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The two girls working at the time were left so shaken [...]

Police in the southern African nation of Botswana have smashed a human trafficking ring that sent 1000 victims as far away as Canada.  Foreign business consultancies were used as fronts for smuggling slaves across international boundaries.
Fourteen people have so far been taken into custody for questioning in Gaborone, Botswana police chief, Assistant Superintendent, Selebatso Mokgosi [...]

Bell Mobility cellphone customers in Northwest Territories are charged 75 cents per month for 911 service.  The only problem is: Bell does not actually provide 911 service in all areas of the territory.
So, understandably, a Yellowknife man, James Anderson, launched a class-action lawsuit in 2007 over the fee for a non-existent service.  What’s hard to [...]

The crown and defence have agreed that Angela Kuehl, 27, of Ottawa should be sentenced to one year of house arrest and two years of probation for smothering her newborn infant and hiding his corpse in the trash. The judge did not immediately agree with their recommendation and will render a sentence in August.
She [...]