"I am in greater sympathy with what happened to the French soldiers. We are in close contact with our French colleagues, and we have no reason to believe that France will do anything other than continue to be part of the very carefully considered transition process as we look at our exit as previously agreed upon."
Three British Muslim men have been found guilty of
stirring up
hatred against
homosexuals
. They distributed leaflets which argued that the death penalty was justified to
rid
society of gay men and women. The verdicts were made at a court in the city of Derby, from where Chris Buckler reports.
Eighteen months ago, Kabir Ahmed, Razwan Javed and Ihjaz Ali had handed out leaflets outside the Jamia Mosque in Derby and put them through letterboxes in the surrounding streets. Titled Death Penalty?, the leaflet featured a picture of a
mannequin
with a noose around its neck. It stated that homosexuals would be punished by execution in an Islamic state. At Derby Crown Court, a jury found all three guilty - the first people to be convicted of stirring up hatred on the grounds of someone's
sexual orientation
.
Iran's English language television station Press TV has lost its licence to broadcast in Britain. The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom said editorial control of Press TV came from Tehran, breaking British broadcasting rules. Press TV has responded by accusing Britain of