Prosecutors fail to overturn acquittal of man who burned Koran outside Turkish embassy ⊖
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Hamit Coskun was initially convicted last June of religiously aggravated public order after holding a flaming copy of the Islamic text aloft and shouting 'f*** Islam' on February 13, 2025.
10 days ago
Man who burned Koran should have had conviction upheld because burning a religious text 'is in itself disorderly', High Court told ○
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Hamit Coskun (pictured), 51, held a flaming copy of the Islamic text aloft and shouted 'f*** Islam' outside the Turkish embassy in central London on February 13 last year.
12 days ago
White House 'is set to accept the Koran burner as a refugee from Britain' ⊕
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The US government is considering granting asylum to Turkish-born atheist protester Hamit Coskun, who burned a Koran outside a Turkish consulate in London last February.
4 months ago
'In a liberal democracy such as ours, the right to offend is precious': Judge spells out importance of free speech as he overturns conviction of man who burnt the Koran ⊕
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Hamit Coskun, 51, shouted 'f*** Islam' as he set fire to the text outside the Turkish consulate in London in February.
Man who burned Koran in street shouting 'f**k Islam' is appealing his conviction on grounds of 'free speech' ⊖
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Hamit Coskun, a 50-year-old Turkish-born atheist, also shouted comments such as 'Islam is the religion of terrorism' as he staged his protest outside the Turkish consulate in Knightsbridge.
Synagogue killer 'preached' about Koran to children living near his home after becoming 'radicalised' during Covid, say neighbours ○
The marijuana-smoking bigamist - who had a tangled love life involving several different women - started wearing traditional Islamic dress and holding 'gatherings' in the front garden, they said.
5 months ago
Muslims 'given green light to take law into their own hands' warns campaigner after man is spared jail for knife attack on protester who was burning Koran ○
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Hamit Coskun, 51, shouted 'f*** Islam', 'Islam is religion of terrorism' and 'Koran is burning', as he held the flaming book during a protest in west London on February 13.
Muslim knifeman who attacked protester who was burning Koran outside Turkish consulate avoids prison ○
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Hamit Coskun, 51, shouted 'f*** Islam', 'Islam is religion of terrorism' and 'Koran is burning', as he held a flaming Islamic text aloft during a protest in west London on February 13.
6 months ago
Private tutor who molested Muslim girls as young as eight while he taught them about the Koran at their homes is jailed for 14 years after victim, 15, spoke up ○
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Umair Iqbal, 38 and from Manchester, preyed on the girls, aged between eight and 18, over a 10-year period while tutoring his victims in maths and to learn the Koran.
7 months ago
Christian preacher is arrested and threatened with 'non-crime hate incident' after asking Muslim woman about passages in the Koran ○
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John Steele, 60, had been out in Rotherham town centre on June 21 when he engaged in a '30-second conversation' with the passerby at a public awareness stall.