Hamit Coskun's conviction was overturned last year, a ruling the CPS sought - and failed - to reverse.

Hamit Coskun was initially convicted last June of a religiously aggravated public order offence after he held a flaming copy of the Islamic text aloft and shouted “f*** Islam” outside the Turkish emba ...

AN activist who burnt the Koran in an anti-Islam protest has had his right to free speech backed by judges. Hamit Coskun, who ...

Not everyone agrees with my style of campaigning; I understand that. Book burning is a provocative act. But, to me, when it ...

Hamit Coskun seems an unlikely champion of free speech. He is a Turkish asylum seeker who strongly objects to the Islamisation of his home country.

A man who burned a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in London has had his appeal upheld in the High Court, in ...

For much of the last year, it has seemed like the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been battling to create a de facto Islamic blasphemy law in Britain. But today, they suffered a great defeat when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hamit Coskun is in Home Office accommodation because of threats made to him [PA Media] Burning a religious text "is in itself ...

It is worth looking at the case in a bit more detail. Coskun arrived in England from Turkey in 2022 as a political asylum seeker. As an Armenian Kurd born and raised in Turkey, he had fled persecution ...

Hamit Coskun successfully appealed in October against his conviction for a religiously aggravated public order offence.

Campaigners hailed a major victory for free speech yesterday as a man who burned a Koran saw his conviction overturned. Hamit Coskun, 51, shouted ‘f*** Islam’ as he set fire to the text outside the ...

Like free speech in the U.K., the White House’s interest in this case shows that free speech is for some, but not for all.