DAR AL HARB-U.K.: ALLEGATIONS OF A DEFACE QUR'AN, DHIMMIS INVESTIGATE

Inquiry into defaced Koran claim

Prison officers have been questioned in connection with allegations a Muslim inmate's copy of the Koran was defaced.

In October, the Islamic Human Rights Commission received a claim from a prisoner at HMP Parkhurst that graffiti had been scrawled by a prison officer.

Prison authorities are now interviewing a "considerable" number of officers at HMP Parkhurst and HMP Albany, Isle of Wight, where the inmate was also held.

The Home Office have said a report into the claim is due at the end of March.

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