Bangladesh has hanged an opposition party leader convicted of war crimes. Mir Quasem Ali, a media tycoon and key financier of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed for murder, confinement, torture and incitement to religious hatred during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Ali did not ask for presidential clemency, paving the way for his…… Read More
For the first time members of Kenya’s counter-terrorism police admit to “eliminating” suspected Muslim radicals. Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit, officers from four units of Kenya’s counter-terrorism apparatus admitted the police assassinate suspects on government orders. They claim that the order to assassinate is made by the National Security Council, a body chaired…… Read More
Video showing the horrendous aftermath of the murder of gay rights activists in Bangladesh by suspected Islamist attackers.… Read More
Islamist protesters demanding Bangladesh have a blasphemy law clashed with secularists and students, who organised their own protest in response. The initial rally, attended by hundreds of thousands of people, was organised by Hifazat-e Islam activists, who demanded atheist bloggers who insult Islam be hanged. Secularists tried to disrupt the protesters reaching the capital Dakar…… Read More
The leader of Bangladesh’s leading Islamist party is set to be executed after the Supreme Court rejected his final appeal. Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, is charged with genocide, rape and orchestrating the massacre of top intellectuals during the war in 1971. Subscribe to us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CCTVNEWSbeijing Download for IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cctvnews-app/id922456579?l=zh&ls=1&mt=8…… Read More
Islamist hardliners, demanding a new anti-blasphemy law, engage in running battle with police, which are understood to have killed 22.… Read More
WATCH NOW: Embedded with Al-Qaeda in Syria – http://bit.ly/2ynOxnn The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has…… Read More