David Isaac, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Britain told the Observer newspaper that the commission would be prepared to use its legal powers to protect the teaching of LGBT issues in the face of opposition from faith groups. “As a gay man who’s been very involved in the LGBT movement, I think identity politics have been hugely important historically, and it would be very easy to…

On May 16, 2019, the Supreme Court of Russia approved a new verdict against Karim Ibrahimov (born in 1963), already convicted by the Moscow District Military Court on August 17, 2016, to 17 years in prison in a high security colony on charges of organizing a Hizb ut Tahrir cell in St. Petersburg.

Austria introduced a headscarf ban in primary schools. France's never-ending war against the headscarf has reached its latest extension in banning mothers with Islamic headscarves from accompanying children on school trips. Germany is currently discussing to introduce a law to ban pupils from fasting during Ramadan.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, stated via his social media account “We are about to reach an agreement about the committee that will make Syria’s constitution. Çavuşoğlu made this statement after his meeting with Nasr al-Hariri, President of the Syrian Negotiation Commission.