Hate Crimes News

Hate Crimes in Canada: In an advisory, the Ministry of External Affairs said the High Commission/Consulates General in Canada have taken up these incidents of hate crimes with the Canadian authorities and requested them to investigate the said crimes and take appropriate action, the release said.

Six Sikh worshippers were gunned down at Wisconsin Gurdwara in 2012 US President Joe Biden has mourned the victims of the 2012 Wisconsin Gurdwara shooting

The United States witnessed more hate crimes in 2016 than the previous year, with an increase of 4.6 percent from 2015, new FBI data showed.

A Muslim-American woman was allegedly kicked out of a bank in the US for 'wearing a hijab' - with staff threatening to call police if she did not 'remove her hood'.

With over 65 per cent of Americans ignorant about Sikhism, the Sikhs in the US are launching a million-dollar awareness campaign to inform them about their religion amid a spike in hate crimes against the minority community in the country.

Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has asked the US administration to take "decisive steps" to end bigotry and hate crimes towards Indian-Americans and other religious minorities in the country.

In an another incident of hate crime, an Indian national has reportedly been attacked in Poland's Poznan city on Friday. 

The recent attacks on Indians in the US are "hate crimes" and not a simple law and order issue, the government said today with an assertion that national interest will not be compromised for the sake of Strategic Partnership with that country.

Expressing grave concern over the increase in hate crimes in the United States, SAALT executive director Suman Raghunathan said they are witness to impact of anti immigrant policies since President Donald Trump took charge.

Members of the Indian community in the US have been alarmed by a video posted on an anti-immigration website, which shows Indian families relaxing in an Ohio park, while a man taking the video accuses them of stealing American jobs, the media reported.

Racially and religiously aggravated abuse incidents in the UK registered a 41 per cent jump in July, a month after the Brexit vote, according to new official statistics released today.

The number of hate crimes reported to British police online, including some assaults, has increased by more than 500 percent in the week after the country voted to leave the European Union, a senior police chief said on Thursday.

In the backdrop of increasing incidents of hate crimes in the country, Chief Justice of India HL Dattu has assured that the courts will be tough while dealing with the perpetrators of such crimes.