One person is murdered every 25 hours in Brazil according to a shocking annual survey conducted by the Gay Group of Bahia (GGB). The 2016 survey found that 343 members of the LGBT community were killed in homophobic, biphobic or … Continue reading
Author Archives: Ana Laura
Extremists Are Thriving On Social Media. How Should We Respond?
This year could become another banner year for online extremism. Far-right political parties in Europe could make significant gains in 2017’s elections. And ISIS, though it has lost much of its territorial foothold, is far from dead, as recent events … Continue reading
Security guards attack French journalist after he asks Marine Le Pen
A French journalist and his cameraman were attacked by security guards after trying to ask far-right candidate Marine le Pen a question over allegations her security guard was paid as a parliamentary aid. Political reporter Paul Larrouturou, who works for … Continue reading
Texas high school students give Nazi salute and shout ‘Heil Trump, heil Hitler’
A group of Texas high school students gave the Nazi salute and shouted “Heil Hitler” and “Heil Trump” while their class photo was being taken. The Cypress Ranch High School senior class on Tuesday lined up outside to have their … Continue reading
Record number of antisemitic hate incidents in UK in 2016
CST recorded 1,309 antisemitic incidents nationwide during 2016, a 36 per cent increase from the 960 incidents recorded by CST in 2015. Previously, the highest annual total of antisemitic incidents recorded by CST had been 1,182 incidents recorded in 2014. … Continue reading
Texas Mosque Set on Fire Hours After Trump Signs Immigration Order
In Texas, a mosque went up in flames just hours after President Trump signed Friday’s executive order. Police have opened an arson investigation into the fire, which completely destroyed the Islamic Center of Victoria around 2 a.m. on Saturday. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
Quebec suspect seen as nerdy outcast,’ fan of France’s right-wing Le Pen
The French-Canadian student charged in a shooting spree that killed six people at a Quebec City mosque was known in online circles as a supporter of far-right French politician Marine Le Pen and described by a former classmate as a … Continue reading
Pedro Varela admits he edited and distributed for 13 years the Mein Kampf
The neo-Nazi bookseller and historian Pedro Varela has admitted that edited and distributed for 13 years the Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler. Varela has been tried for a crime against intellectual property, since until April 30, 2015, to publish and … Continue reading
Swastikas and Fascist Graffiti Scrawled on School in Macedonia
The European Roma Rights Centre together with representatives of the Roma community from Bitola, inhabitants of the Romani settlement Bair, and our local partners: Roma Civic Parliament (Bitola), ROMA SOS (Prilep), Bairska Svetlina (Bitola), the Helsinki Committee of the Republic … Continue reading
Banned neo-Nazi group ‘Combat 18’ active again
Far-right “Combat 18” militants have managed to set up structures in several German states despite a nationwide ban, German media have reported. Still, authorities do not see grounds to launch an investigation. German officials have had hundreds of reports of … Continue reading