Cultura da Violência

Autor de livro sobre o crime organizado global, Misha Glenny argumentava como o colapso da URSS impulsionou essa atividade no mundo; agora, em nova edição da obra, adaptada como série pela BBC, o jornalista destaca outro elemento da expansão das máfias: o colapso econômico de 2008.

Some of Elvis Sidaway's victims were threatened with a knife, West Midlands Police said.

They say Michael Hayes should be questioned "properly" about the Birmingham pub bombings.

These are the steps you should take if you or someone you know suffers a chemical burn.

What is leading to the rise in acid attacks in the UK and what can be done to stop them from happening?

There were more than 400 incidents in England and Wales in the six months to April 2017.

Aniso Abdulkadir said she was attacked and her friend was spat on at Baker Street station.

A former Miss Italy finalist who was the victim of an acid attack, has returned to work at the aquarium where she trains sea lions. Gessica Notaro received severe burns to her face in January when she was doused in hydrochloric acid. Her ex-boyfriend, Jorge Edson Tavares, is being prosecuted for the attack, although he has strenuously denied any involvement.

A spate of acid attacks has left some Muslim residents of east London afraid to leave their homes.

A survivor of gang rape in India has been attacked with acid for the fifth time as she was taking shelter in a women’s refuge, but police have disputed her account. A woman who was allegedly raped by more than one man in 2008 following an argument over property then suffered five separate acid attacks, mostly from the same perpetrators.

A Muslim man who was left with life-changing injuries following an acid attack in east London has demanded to know why the assault is not being treated as terrorism. Jameel Muhktar had to be put in a coma for two days after a man threw acid at him and his cousin Resham Khan through a car window as they sat at traffic lights in Beckton

An Italian model who allegedly had acid thrown in her face by her ex-boyfriend, has revealed her scars on TV for the first time. Gessica Notaro, a former Miss Italy finalist, appeared on Canale 5’s Maurizio Costanzo show, where she chose to remove her scarf to bare her injuries. The 27-year-old, from the northern city of Cesena, was allegedly ambushed by her ex-boyfriend, Jorge Edson Tavares, and said she spent two months “imprisoned” in hospital while she was receiving treatment.

An Australian model has shared pictures of her wounds after she was caught up in a suspected acid attack in a London nightclub. Isobella Fraser, 22, received third degree burns to her arm and back when a fight broke out in Mangle nightclub in Dalston, east London, where hundreds of people were attending a bank holiday LoveJuice event.

Police are searching for witnesses after a man allegedly threw acid in the face of a Chinese family as they were pushing a buggy down a North London street. Two parents, aged 40 and 36, were walking in Islington with their two-year-old son when a man approached them and threw acid in the father’s face. The corrosive liquid also splashed onto the woman and their son.

Teen model Shonali Khatun strutted the catwalk as the audience cheered at a fashion show in Bangladesh's capital. But Shonali is no ordinary model, and this was no ordinary show. She and the 14 other models are survivors of acid attacks, common in this south Asian country, where spurned lovers or disgruntled family members sometimes resort to hurling skin-burning acid at their victims.

Three people have been arrested in connection with an acid attack outside a restaurant in Southampton. Carla Whitlock was left with serious burns after she was attacked outside the Turtle Bay restaurant on Friday 18 September. Billy Midmore, 22, and his brother Geoffrey Midmore,26, were arrested along with an unnamed 33-year-old woman at around 10:45pm in Gillingham, Kent on Monday.

A young Pakistani woman had her skin burned off in a brutal acid attack for turning down a marriage proposal. Saima Mehmood, 21, from North Karachi, had acid thrown in her face as punishment for refusing to marry a suitor, leaving her with horrific injuries.

Iran's supreme court has ruled that a woman must be blinded in one eye as punishment for an acid attack that left her victim sightless, using the principle of “eye for an eye” of Islamic Sharia law, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday. Under Iran's Sharia law, imposed since the 1979 Islamic revolution, qesas (retribution) is permitted in cases where bodily injuries are inflicted.

On Father’s Day, Mohmoud Hassanen spent the day at the mosque. It’s not unusual for Muslims to spend extra time at the mosque during Ramadan, our holy month, which is in its last – and most sacred – days.

An American Muslim composer has said he was detained for hours at a New York airport when he returned home from a recent trip to London. Mohammed Fairouz, who has been described as one of the most frequently performed composers of his generation, had travelled from Heathrow to John F Kennedy airport after visiting the UK to record with a British string orchestra. He says he was pulled aside for “additional screening” by an immigration officer with no explanation except that his name is “super common”.

Two Muslim men have been taken off a plane bound for Manchester after two women accused them of “making gestures”. They were asked to re-trace their steps through security at Izmir airport in Turkey for extra checks sparked by claims including that they were “going to the toilet to use their phones”. Their Thomas Cook flight was delayed for 80 minutes before the passengers were given the all-clear for the second time.

More than fifteen years after 9/11, the number of Islamophobic attacks recorded in the US continues to soar.

Witnesses who saw a triple stabbing on a train in Oregon say it may have been racially motivated, after a man who launched into a racist rant against two Muslim women then attacked passengers when they tried to intervene. The attacker slashed the throats of three people as the Metro Area Express (MAX) train was pulling into a station in the north east corner of Portland – leaving two dead and one injured.

The number of police officers around places of worship has increased in response to a spike in hate crime following the Borough Market terror attack. Chief Superintendent Dave Stringer said in a statement: “Over the next few days, communities of different faiths will congregate across London to celebrate their holy days. “We know many will reflect on the terrible events of last Saturday evening in their readings and prayers but also that some will feel worried and vulnerable about their safety as they gather in their places of worship.

Norway aims to ban face-covering Muslim veils in kindergartens, schools and universities, the government said on Monday, the latest European nation to propose restrictions on wearing burqas and niqabs. France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria and the German state of Bavaria have all imposed restrictions on wearing full-face veils in public places. Norway's minority government, a coalition of the centre-right Conservatives and the populist Progress Party, said it was confident it would find opposition support for the move.

A “bag of vomit” was reportedly been thrown at a car carrying two Muslim women in Blackburn.

Jameel Muhktar and his cousin Resham Khan will never forget what happened at 9.15am on June 21. They were victims of a horrific acid attack by a white male in east London. Jameel went into an induced coma and Resham’s career as an aspiring model is now over. The pair firmly believe this was an Islamophobic hate crime.

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An acid attack on an aspiring model and her cousin is now being treated as a hate crime. Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, 37, were attacked by a man throwing acid through their car window on Ms Khan's 21st birthday. Police, who have described the incident as a "horrendous act of violence", said new information had come to light, leading them to investigate the assault as a hate crime. John Tomlin, 24, is being hunted over the attack and police have warned the public not to approach him.

Corrosive acids such as those used in last night’s attacks in London can be found and purchased online within minutes. Googling “sulphuric acid”, for instance, instantly brings up a row of products, most of which cost less than £10, that sits right across the top of the page.