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Gay Soccer Fans Warned To Not Hold Hands In Russia At 2018 World Cup
A group dedicated to ending discrimination in soccer has a warning for any gay soccer fans going to Russia for the 2018 World Cup: Don’t hold hands or show affection in public. It could be dangerous. The executive director of Fare (which used to be known as Football Against Racism in Europe) told the Guardian that the group will be issuing guidelines to LGBT fans in the run-up to the World Cup, which runs June 14-July 15, 2018.
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Russian Singer Swept Up In Chechnya's Anti-Gay Purge Reportedly Murdered
A Russian singer reportedly arrested as part of Chechnya’s anti-gay crackdown was murdered shortly after being detained, a source tell NewNowNext. Zelimkhan Bakaev was last seen on August 8 in Grozny, where he had come from Moscow for his sister’s wedding. His family say they haven’t heard from him since and have been unable to get answers about his fate.
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Hate Map
917 Hate Groups are currently operating in the US. Track them below with our Hate Map.
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How Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web
Cloudflare, a prominent San Francisco outfit, provides services to neo-Nazi sites like The Daily Stormer, including giving them personal information on people who complain about their content.
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Police investigate anti-gay Bible verse carved into fence
A week before gay pride festivities kick off, a South Seattle man said his neighbor carved an anti-gay Bible verse into a fence. Seattle Police are investigating to see if it's a hate crime or just an act of free speech. Last weekend, 38-year-old Shaun Shaffer and his roommates decorated their home with four gay pride flags.
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Anti-Muslim hate crimes increase fivefold since London Bridge attacks
The London Bridge attacks have triggered a big spike in hate crimes with a significant amount of them being attacks in the street directed at British Muslims. Figures released by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, showed a fivefold increase in Islamophobic attacks since the atrocity at London Bridge on Saturday, and a 40% increase in racist incidents, compared with the daily average this year.
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Trump condemns fatal Oregon stabbings; says victims stood against hate
President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the fatal stabbings of two Good Samaritans who tried to stop a man from harassing a pair of women who appeared to be Muslim, in a tweet issued days after an advocacy group urged Trump to condemn the attacks it said his anti-Muslim rhetoric had encouraged. A third man who also came to the aid of the women suffered serious wounds in the attack on a Portland commuter train on Friday, hours before the start of Ramadan, Islam's holy month. One of the women tearfully thanked the men for their sacrifice.
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'Alt-Reich' member charged in fatal stabbing of black student
The FBI is looking into whether the fatal stabbing of a black student by a white student at the University of Maryland was a hate crime. Sean Christopher Urbanski, 22, was arrested on murder charges in the death of Richard Collins III in the early hours of Saturday, according to police. Mr Collins, 23, was visiting friends at the College Park campus when he was stabbed in the chest with a knife.
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Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Reported hate crimes against Muslims in the United States rose dramatically, again; Trump fires Comey; in a boost for rights, France elected Emmanuel Macron to the presidency, but the far-right’s unprecedented share of the vote should be a wake-up call for France; the crisis in Venezuela deepens; worrying trends in Indonesia; and a campaign to stop anti-gay attacks in Chechnya – get the background from HRW’s Facebook Live Q & A.
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West Virginia Supreme Court Rules Anti-Gay Assaults Are Not Hate Crimes
The Mountain State won’t protect LGBTQ people from bias-motivated violence. By Mark Joseph Stern.
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Teenager suffers serious head injuries in Croydon 'hate crime' attack
A teenage asylum seeker was left fighting for his life after being beaten in a “brutal attack” by a gang in what police are treating as a hate crime. The 17-year-old was waiting at a bus stop with two friends in Croydon, south-east London, when he was set upon by about eight youths. They asked him where he was from, and when he told them he was an asylum seeker they chased after him and launched their attack.
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London Attack: Police Name Westminster Attacker
The man believed to be responsible for the attack is named as 52-year-old Khalid Masood.
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U.S. Jewish Center Bomb Threat Suspect Is Arrested in Israel
The authorities said the suspect, a citizen of the United States and Israel, masked the origin of his communications to American synagogues.
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1,500 acid attacks have been recorded in London since 2011
Acid attacks in Britain's capital are soaring to new heights, new data reveals. A Freedom of Information request submitted by the Mirror shows that between 2011 and 2016, London had nearly 1,500 cases of the devastating crime, which burns the skin and leaves victims cowering from their injuries.
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Police seek FBI help with finding suspect after Indian man shot in Seattle
Fear, hurt and disbelief weighed on the minds of those who gathered at a Sikh temple Sunday after the shooting of a Sikh man who said a gunman approached him in his suburban Seattle driveway and told him "go back to your own country." "Everybody who is part of this community needs to be vigilant," Satwinder Kaur, a Sikh community leader, said as several hundred people poured into a temple in Renton for worship services about one mile from Friday night's shooting. "It is scary," she added. "The community has been shaken up."
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Donations soar for Indian 'hate crime' victim
More than half a million dollars has been raised in a day for the family of an Indian man shot dead in a suspected hate crime at a Kansas bar. The killing of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, an engineer originally from Hyderabad, has made headlines in his home country. Some people on social media have blamed it on intolerance and distrust sparked by President Donald Trump's tough stance on immigration. Adam Purinton, 51, a US Navy veteran has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of attempted premeditated murder.
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Brooklyn Man Who Grabbed Woman’s Hijab Is Charged With a Hate Crime
Add another awful incident to the string of apparent hate crimes in New York City: A Brooklyn man has been arrested after he reportedly tried to pull of a woman’s hijab after getting ticked off in an alleged road-rage incident. Michael Isakharov, 40, also shouted anti-Muslim slurs at 22-year-old Gehad Elsayed after the two had a run-in on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn on the morning of November 14. Elsayed she was making room for a driver — now ID’ed as Isakharov — to pull into her lane on the boulevard, when she noticed him staring at her.
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US Hate Incidents Spike after Donald Trump Elected
Civil rights group tracks nearly 900 cases of assaults, intimidation, and harassment in 10 days after election win.
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Hate Crimes, Hoaxes, and Hyperbole
A reality check for all sides. By Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
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FBI: Hate Crimes Against Muslims up by 67 Percent in 2015
The number of hate crimes reported to police increased by about 6.7 percent last year, led largely by a 67 percent surge in crimes against Muslims, according to FBI statistics released Monday. Civil rights groups had been raising concerns about an anti-Muslim backlash in the U.S. even before the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, late in the year. The reporting period covers calendar year 2015, but comes at a time of heightened tensions following last week's presidential election.
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