USA: Man Sentenced To 34 Years In Prison For Hate Crime Against Sikhs

NEVADA: Carson City District Court sentenced Drayton resident Travis Mickelson to 11 to 34 years in prison on Thursday in what was tried and prosecuted as Carson City’s first hate crime. In November of 2018, Mickelson was convicted by a jury in Judge James Russell’s court of attempted murder with hate crime enhancements, as well […]
Scotland: Man Jailed For Fire Attack On Edinburgh Gurdwara

EDINBURGH: A man who carried out fire attacks at a Sikh Gurdwara and a church because he wanted to make a “political statement” has been jailed for four years. Paul Johnson, 49, used petrol to ignite the doors of Edinburgh’s Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara and Leith Methodist church this summer. Johnson admitted two charges of wilful […]
USA: Carson City Jury Convicts Man Of Attempted Murder Of Sikhs In Racially Charged Shooting

NEVADA: A Carson City jury convicted a local man of attempted murder with hate crime enhancements Friday as well as battery and assault with a deadly weapon following an incident in east Carson City last year where the man shot more than a dozen rounds into a vehicle occupied by five Sikh men visiting the […]