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A person stole a Koran from a mosque near the French city of Lyon and set it on fire at the weekend, religious leaders and a police source said on Tuesday.
UK Man who burned Koran guilty of religiously aggravated public order offence Hamit Coskun, 50, held the flaming Islamic text aloft in London on February 13.
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.
The burning of a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London by a 50-year-old Derby man amounted to a religiously aggravated public order offence, a judge has found. Hamit Coskun shouted “f ...
The burning of a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London went beyond a protest and posed a “threat to public order”, a trial heard. Hamit Coskun, 50, allegedly shouted “f*** Islam ...
The conviction of a man accused of religiously aggravated disorderly behaviour over the burning of a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London could see a return to a prohibition on blasphemy ...
Criminalising Koran burning would be reintroducing blasphemy law, court told Hamit Coskun is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Prosecuting a man for burning the Koran is “tantamount to reintroducing a blasphemy law” in Great Britain, a trial heard. Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted “f*** Islam”, “Islam is religion of ...
Charges against man who burnt Koran ‘incorrectly worded’ Suspect no longer accused of harassing “religious institution of Islam” after blasphemy offence backlash ...
An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, investigators said Thursday, with Sweden's prime minister suggesting a ...
A man who repeatedly burnt the Koran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, media reported Thursday as police confirmed a man died in a shooting the day before.