Tag: Charlie Hebdo

France mourns Paris attack victims, two years on

PARIS: France on Monday marked two years since its worst-ever terror attacks when terrorists killed 130 people in Paris and injured hundreds of others. "Two...

Charlie Hebdo gets death threats over Islamic scholar cartoon

French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo said on Monday it was pressing charges after receiving fresh death threats against staffers over a cartoon of the...

Charlie Hebdo threatened after latest issue mocks Muslims

Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has received threats after its latest issue mocked Muslims following the burqini ban in Cannes, France. The latest issue of...

New Charlie Hebdo cartoon depicts Aylan Kurdi as sex offender in...

French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has sparked another controversy by releasing a cartoon suggesting that if three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi had survived, he...

Attacks in France since Charlie Hebdo slayings

Multiple attacks which claimed at least 120 lives in Paris on Friday night are the latest in a string of incidents in France this...

Editor behind Denmark’s Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons steps down

The Danish editor who commissioned the Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago said Monday he was leaving the Jyllands-Posten newspaper...

Charlie Hebdo moves into new high-security offices

Nine months after the Charlie Hebdo attack in which some of France's most celebrated cartoonists were shot dead, the satirical magazine began moving Tuesday...

Charlie Hebdo mocks death of Syrian child Aylan Kurdi

While the world mourned the unfortunate death of a three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, Charlie Hebdo — the French magazine which regularly stirs controversy...

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist says he will no longer draw Prophet (PBUH)...

Cartoonist Luz, who drew Charlie Hebdo’s front cover picture following the massacre of the satirical weekly’s editorial team by militants in January, has told...

Charlie Hebdo wins ‘Islamophobe of the Year’ award

The Islamic Human Rights Organisation conferred their annual international “Islamophobia’ award on controversial French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, according to The Independent. Two months ago,...

Quarter of British Muslims sympathise with Charlie Hebdo terrorists

One in four British Muslims sympathise with terrorists behind the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January, according to a UK-based poll. A report published in The...

Indian police arrest editor over Charlie Hebdo reprint

Police have arrested and bailed the editor of an Urdu-language newspaper in Mumbai for reprinting an anti-Islam cartoon from satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Shirin...

Charlie Hebdo circulation tops 7 million

Circulation of the "survivors'" issue of Charlie Hebdo, published after a deadly attack on the French satirical weekly's Paris office, is set to top...

Thousands protest in Karachi against Charlie Hebdo

Thousands of people marched through Karachi on Thursday in the largest protest yet against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing sacrilegious cartoons. The march...

EU holds talks on terror threat after Paris attacks

The immediate focus for the 28-nation European Union is how to prevent citizens known as ‘foreign fighters’ returning home from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq even more radicalised and well trained

IHC observes partial strike over blasphemous cartoons

A partial strike was observed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on the appeal of Pakistan Bar Council in protest against the blasphemous cartoons...

CNN anchor quits after row of tweets on Charlie Hebdo attack

“These accounts are part of a campaign to do PR for #Israel @JewsMakingNews @elderofziyon Nothing illegal – but PR not HR: Human Rights.”