Tag Archives: hate crime

After 9/11, Sikhs Bear Burden of Misplaced Anti-Muslim Sentiment.

USA: I remember visiting my parents in my home state of Wisconsin and receiving a frantic phone call from my husband asking if I was okay. “There was a mass shooting at your Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship),” he told ...

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Hate crime against US Sikh: man pleads guilty

Washington, USA: A US national has pleaded guilty to the charge of hate crime against a 50-year old Sikh taxi driver in the state of Washington, the US justice department has announced. Jamie Larson, 49, faces imprisonment up to 10 years ...

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Monumental Step Forward in Tracking Hate Crimes Against Sikhs

Washington D.C:  With the utmost gratitude, UNITED SIKHS thanks Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) for his efforts to encourage the Department of Justice and FBI to begin tracking and quantifying hate crimes against Sikh, Hindu, and Arab Americans. To date, the ...

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Gilbert Garcia who was arrested earlier nearly killing 82 yrs Piara Singh of Fresno pleads ‘Not Guilty’

Sacramento, California: A man accused of brutally attacking an 82-year old Sikh with a rod outside a gurdwara in a suspected hate crime earlier this month has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and abusing an elderly. Gilbert Garcia, ...

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