A leading anti-racism group in France has for the first time backed a defendant who claims to have been assaulted for being white on the Paris metro. ...

Violence against sex workers should be reclassified as a hate crime, a new report has said, claiming that the risks associated with prostitution have ...

Police have made their first two arrests under new hate crime policies aimed to protect punks, goths and 'emos.' A boy aged 14 and a man aged 44, b...

A police force has become the first in the country to record attacks on goths, emos and punks as hate crimes. Abuse towards alternative subcultures...

Tragic cases like the deaths of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter could be repeated because police officers are too embarrassed to ask victims of crim...

A 21-year-old man who dumped a pig's head outside a mosque has been jailed for three months. Rory Rowbottom left the animal part outside the Muslim...

A 16-year-old boy was arrested by police investigating a hate crime after pieces of ham were thrown at a mosque. The teenager was held on suspicion...

Tuesday marks five years since Fiona Pilkington set fire to her car in a Leicestershire lay-by, killing both herself and her 18-year-old disabled daug...

Hate crimes against disabled people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland went up by 33% in 2011, figures have shown. More than 2,000 crimes took ...

Three men have been jailed after becoming the first to be convicted of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation for handing out leaflet...

Police hunting a gang of Asian youths who battered a white teenager and left him for dead say they are treating the attack as a hate crime. The 18-...

A group of Muslim men handed out to the public a leaflet that called for homosexuals to be "punished" and given the death sentence, a court has heard....

Five men are to go on trial today accused of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation in the first prosecution of its kind. Ihjaz Al...

Five men are to go on trial on Monday accused of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation in the first prosecution of its kind. Ihja...

A man found with "horrible injuries" by the side of the road was the victim of an "extremely violent" attack, police have said. Officers investigat...

Police are appealing for witnesses after after a man's burned body was found at the side of the road in Ayrshire, Scotland. Stuart Walker, 28, was ...

You will do anything to save your life if you think you're going to be killed. When they were kicking my boyfriend, a strapping guy, down to the floor and then in the head, I thought, "That's it- we're going to die." I invented a fictional sister and kept repeating, "My little sister's at home, we really need to get home - just let us go."