Stephen Evans, chief executive of the NSS said: “A successful prosecution in this case could represent the effective criminalisation of damaging a Koran in public, edging us dangerously close to ...

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 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”, “Islam is ...

An asylum seeker who set fire to the Koran while shouting anti-Islamic slurs has been warned by police that he is the target of an 'imminent' terror plot to murder ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Prosecuting a man for burning the Koran is “tantamount to reintroducing a blasphemy law” in Great Britain, a trial heard. Hamit Coskun, ...

THE conviction of a man who burned a Koran has been condemned as an example of “de facto blasphemy laws”. Hamit Coskun, 50, yelled “f*** Islam” as he set fire to a copy of the religious ...

A man who burned a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London has branded his prosecution “an assault on free speech” as campaigners argued the ruling “signals a concerning capitulation to Islamic ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The burning of a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London amounted to a religiously aggravated public order offence, a judge has found.

A man who allegedly threatened to behead a protester who set a Koran alight has been remanded in custody. Muhammad Naasir Attaari, 49, was charged with threatening to kill Hamit Coskun after he ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A man who burned a Koran outside the Turkish Consulate in central London was attacked and spat on by a man who told him not to do so because ...