The British government is again responding to prison overcrowding by releasing criminals early, with hundreds out as soon as one third through their sentence today, with thousands more to follow in the coming weeks.
Prison gates across England and Wales had a party atmosphere on Thursday morning, with some convicts calling out thanks to the Prime Minister for having slashed their sentences, as the first tranche of early release prisoners were turned out onto the street. The government claims the early releases are necessary because of decades of underinvestment in prisons in Britain, producing practically no new prison places during a time of massive population growth, and rising crime.
Other alternatives exist to letting criminals including violent and sex offenders walk free long before they would otherwise, but they typically involve the government spending money rather than simply externalising the social costs of a collapsing justice system on the wider public. Indeed, Pollster YouGov forThe Times published findings on Thursday morning that stated the most popular solutions to the prison overcrowding crisis are building new prisons and deporting foreign criminals.
The most hated options, on the other hand, are precisely what the government is doing now, with a statistically negligible proportion of Britons thinking slowing down the court process and early prison release are good ideas.
In theory, all prisoners being released should have somewhere to live when they are turned out of jail, or at the least have a hostel or other temporary arrangement set up for them by the probation service, but as stated by The Guardian the system is not working as it should and a considerable proportion of those being released now will end up homeless on the street. Given the difficulty of living within the law without a bed or address, the paper warns many of those being released today will inevitably end back up in prison.
Some of those walking free today clearly linked their freedom with Britain’s Labour government. The Daily Telegraphreports on one serial shoplifter with, reportedly, 100 previous convictions, who thanked the Prime Minister as he left prison this morning and vowed he would now vote for Labour in return. Another told the paper “God bless the Prime Minister” at the prison gates, and a further convict said: “Justice system, what justice system? Thank you Andy Burnham”.
Today’s released are the first tranche of a new series, with 700 out the door today and another 4,500 to follow in the next 10 months. The Guardian states 2,000 to be released in the next month alone will include domestic abusers and violent offenders. Sex offenders are also due to be among those going free, but after previous controversy, killers, rapists, and child sex grooming gang members will not be eligible this time.
Prisoners who have served as little as one third of the sentence handed to them by a court can walk free.
Emptying the prisons is becoming something of a pattern with Britain’s Labour governments, with former Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer having started the mass releases back in 2024. The speed with which the government was emptying cells led to an unprecedented intervention by top police officers and spymasters warning Starmer that he was putting the public at risk, in 2025.
Britain’s Conservative Party has heaped criticism on Labour for its early release programme, suggesting the government buy up defunct conference centres or student accomodation to create temporary, ermegency prisons to overcome overcapacity without having to release criminals into the community before they’ve served their time. Yet with most areas of Conservative criticism, the party ruled the country for 14 years from 2010 to 2024, presided over the prisons crisis then, and never enacted any of these ideas themselves, leaving the boasts ringing hollow.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has a more robust policy approach, having previously promised that should it form the next government it would create 22,000 prison places in five years. This would be achieved by deporting 10,000 foreign criminals, and created a 12,000-cell estate of temporary, emergency prisons.
Based on the short-notice roll-out of ‘Nightingale Hospitals’ created by the British government during the Coronavirus era with thousands of critical care beds in conference halls, sporting facilities, and industrial units, the ‘Nightingale Prisons’ could be built on Ministry of Defence land, Farage said.
On top of this, Farage said his government would consider leasing prison places abroad, such as in Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador, to house foreign-citizen criminals to serve their sentences prior to deportation.
The entrance to Blaise Pascal High School was set on fire on Oct. 1.
The principal of a French high school in Rouen was struck by a firework mortar and the school’s entrance was set on fire, resulting in a massive blaze, on Thursday. The arson attack is one of many targeting schools today, Oct. 1, which also saw mass violence, buses and fire trucks set on fire, and even a case being treated as attempted murder.
The latest incident in Rouen saw a student aim a firework mortar and hit the principal of the Blaise Pascal High School at the school gate shortly before 8 a.m., Paris Normandie reported. A video of the incident showed the principal being hit directly in the face and retreating into the school.
🇫🇷🔴 JUST IN: A school principal was struck directly in the face by a firework mortar during ongoing violent student blockades in France.
The incident happened at Blaise Pascal High School in Rouen.
Later, the entire entrance of the school was set on fire.
Burning trash bins were placed outside the entrance around the same time, producing heavy smoke and causing major fire damage at the doorway. Video of the blaze has also spread on social media.
🇫🇷🔥 BREAKING: Another major school arson attack at Blaise Pascal High School in the French city of Rouen.
Classes were canceled due to the violence. About 30 police officers were nearby, and at least one person was arrested at the school.
The Normandy education authority said the Blaise Pascal principal and the principal of Elisa Lemonnier High School in nearby Petit-Quevilly were both injured in the morning unrest and quickly treated by emergency services.
🇫🇷🚨 BREAKING: Nelson Mandela High School is currently on fire in the French city of Nantes.
Schools across France are being set on fire as student protests and blockades rage on.
Fires and blockades were also reported at other schools in and around Rouen, including Marcel-Sembat High School in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, where bins and barriers burned and mortar shots were heard, and at Flaubert High School and Camille Saint-Saëns High School. In Le Havre, fires damaged entrances or streets outside several high schools, and at least two cars burned near one campus.
The clashes are part of high-school protests that began last week in the Paris region and have spread nationwide. However, what began as protests over overcrowded classes, missing teachers and poor facilities, has come to be described as race-fueled rioting predominantly in schools with large migrant populations.
Critics say the students’ response of burning down schools is especially contradictory when the students are supposedly claiming their schools are in poor condition and not well-maintained.
🇫🇷🔥 BREAKING: Schools are burning across France as violent student blockades grow. The mayhem shows no sign of slowing down despite 625 arrests.
Oct. 1 🔺 Nelson-Mandela high school in Nantes burned, façade and hall destroyed. The school is expected to be closed for several… pic.twitter.com/v1fxbNuWfH
Earlier this week at Blaise Pascal, student Malo Leleu-Marret told Paris Normandie, “There is a lack of staff, we end up with 35 students per class in rooms that are too small.”
It is unclear how shooting the principal with a mortar and burning the school will help deliver a better teaching experience for students.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has said fireworks, fires, and violence near schools cannot be justified. Interior Ministry figures from earlier in the week showed over 650 arrests across France, most involving minors, along with injuries to officers, students, and school staff. Up to 50 officers were wounded and multiple teachers and staff were assaulted, including an incident today in Marseille, Oct. 1, in which saw students doused school leaders in gasoline. Police are reportedly treating the case as attempted murder.
Police continued to investigate the Rouen-area attacks Thursday as blockades persisted at multiple campuses.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the City of Moncton (City) has filed its Statement of Defence in a lawsuit brought by Burn 24/7 Canada Worship Ministries Society over the cancellation of a Christian worship event at Riverfront Park in July 2025.
In its defence, the City claims that it cancelled the event “to ensure public safety and to prevent anticipated hate speech.” It denies that cancelling the event restricted freedom of expression and argues in the alternative that safety concerns justified its decision.
The City says it feared that people near Riverfront Park, “including children,” could face an unsafe environment. Yet its Statement of Defence does not say the City asked organizers for their security plan or worked with them to address those concerns before cancelling the event.
Burn 24/7 Canada, a Christian non-profit, planned a free worship event featuring American musician Sean Feucht at Riverfront Park on July 24, 2025. The Society had hosted Mr. Feucht at prayer events elsewhere in Canada in previous years without incident.
The City approved the booking on April 30, and organizers continued to arrange event details with City staff. On July 22, the City cancelled it, citing messages from opponents who planned to protest and concerns about possible interactions with attendees.
The Society maintains that its event complied with City policies and that organizers had prepared a security plan. It argues that the City yielded to opposition to the event instead of addressing any legitimate safety concerns while protecting peaceful expression.
Constitutional lawyer Hatim Kheir said, “This case concerns a basic constitutional principle: governments cannot suppress peaceful expression simply because others threaten to protest it.”
He added, “Public officials have a duty to protect freedom of expression, not surrender it to those who oppose a speaker’s message.”
Organizers found an alternative venue at Bar None Camp in Taxis River only hours before the event. The Society says the remote location and last-minute move sharply reduced attendance and caused additional expenses and lost donations.
The Society seeks a declaration that the City violated its freedom of expression and $50,000 in Charter damages. The City asks the Court to dismiss the action with costs and argues that the Society should have challenged the cancellation through judicial review.
High-school pupils have blocked hundreds of lycées (state secondary schools) across France for a week, and parts of the movement have turned into fires, mortar fire and assaults on staff.
Interior minister Laurent Nuñez said 356 schools were disrupted on September 30, against 338 the day before.
Nuñez said there were seven incidents on September 29 in which people threw hydrochloric acid at law enforcement officers.
Police detained 625 people on September 30, after 440 the previous day and 164 on September 28, most of them minors.
Eighty-three officers and gendarmes were wounded on September 30, against 48 on September 29 and 12 the day before that.
Education minister Édouard Geffray said 119 pupils and staff had been injured since the blockades began, 34 of them education employees, a figure he called unprecedented in the French school system. He called the attacks indefensible.
A teacher in northern France was beaten, a head was hurt by a firework mortar, and another received a death threat.
Another teacher who wanted to extinguish a fire was jumped on and pushed to the ground.
🔴🇫🇷 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — Un professeur a été MIS À TERRE et FRAPPÉ alors qu’il tentait d’éteindre un feu de poubelle au lycée Stéphane-Hessel, à Toulouse. pic.twitter.com/nHKp4nWEqp
Ten education staff and several pupils were injured on one day by mortar fire alone.
In Tours, central France, a young person was hospitalised with head injuries.
The IGPN police inspectorate has opened three inquiries after pupils were hurt at Sevran and Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, both in the Paris region, and Tours.
In Marseille, southern France, buses were attacked near high schools on October 1, and one bus driver was assaulted while others had to leave their vehicle in a hurry. A head teacher was sprayed with petrol in the same city and a journalist working for the broadcaster M6 was assaulted while covering the protests there.
The protests began in the Val-de-Marne, southeast of Paris, and spread to Lille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rennes, Nantes, Marseille and the northern suburbs of the capital.
The stated demands, set out by the Union syndicale lycéenne (school students’ union), are substitute teachers, more staff, fewer pupils in a class, lighter timetables, repairs to buildings the union calls dilapidated, and relief from the stress of Parcoursup, the university-application platform.
A 17-year-old at Paul-Éluard in Saint-Denis told Reuters there were cockroaches and rats in the school.
The union has described the movement as the result of a decade of underfunding.
On October 1, pupils and students called an “act two”.
The Union étudiante (students’ union) said ten faculties were blocked, including Lyon 2 and 3, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Aix-Marseille, Nanterre and Paris 1. By the afternoon about 30 campuses were affected, among them sites in Paris, Reims and Poitiers.
The 2027 budget, presented the same day, sets out €54 billion of savings, freezing most spending increases and seeking contributions from pensioners and companies.
The large number of pupils of a migrant background adds an extra dimension to the blockades. Anti-Israeli chants have been recorded.
🔴🇫🇷 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — Des propos antisémites sont scandés lors d’un blocus de lycée à Carpentras, où un drapeau palestinien est brandi :
La France insoumise (LFI) has treated the blockades as a campaign of its own.
On September 28 Jean-Luc Mélenchon wrote that the pupils were “harmless”, accused Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu of ordering a crackdown with “an obvious racist aftertaste”, and told LFI elected officials and activists to “place yourselves between” the pupils and the police “wherever you can”.
Mathilde Panot, who leads the party’s group in the National Assembly, told the government it would not be allowed to make life impossible for hundreds of thousands of lycée pupils.
In Saint-Denis, LFI mayor Bally Bagayoko, elected in March 2026, stood with pupils outside Lycée Paul-Éluard and said violence could be a legitimate reaction to police action. “If I slap you, you will react,” he told reporters on September 29.
He was filmed laughing with pupils around a fire, giving high fives and dancing.
Paris police prefect Patrice Faure referred him to prosecutors in Bobigny for suspected provocation to commit an offence, saying he had presented a violent reaction as understandable or legitimate.
Bruno Retailleau, a Les Républicains senator for Vendée and centre-right presidential candidate, raised “the question of banning LFI”, speaking on BFMTV-RMC on October 1. He called them seditious and said it was a party fascinated by violence that was “trying to organise the insurrection”.
Edwige Diaz, who on September 29 became the first president of the National Rally group in the Senate, said the demands of the high school students were “perfectly legitimate”, but that “the radicalised far-left” instrumentalised young pupils and was making “violence its political method”.
En Saint-Denis, la figura del alcalde Bally Bagayoko ha generado debate tras participar en manifestaciones que derivaron en momentos de tensión. Su elección es histórica, ya que se trata del primer alcalde musulmán en una ciudad francesa con más de 100 mil habitantes, lo que… pic.twitter.com/noEXQVoJ1Y
A particular element of the protests has been the use of fire and arson.
In Lille, northern France, protesters set rubbish containers alight and threw bottles and paving stones.
At Le Havre, Normandy, bins were burning outside Porte Océane while firefighters worked and police held the crowd; at Claude Monet, bins and scooters were thrown on a fire.
In Manosque, southeast France, pupils from Esclangon and Martin Bret faced police amid several bin fires and projectiles.
BFM showed a fire in front of Lycée Berthelot in Pantin and mortar rounds.
In Nantes, western France, witnesses and posts on October 1 said part of Lycée Nelson-Mandela had caught fire during the blockade; other accounts said fires of branches and bins had been lit in front of Michelet and other schools.
In Haubourdin, near Lille, municipal buildings were damaged and bins burned; the lycée and two nearby primary schools were closed until Monday.
President Emmanuel Macron, speaking in Madrid during a state visit to Spain, said no fear justified violence and that political leaders must not legitimise it.
“We have seen many officials going in front of the lycées to excite the pupils. I think that is serious.”
Lycées, he said, exist to transmit knowledge, “not to be blocked or to burn bins”.
Lecornu wrote that fireworks, fires and violence near schools endangered pupils, staff and police, and accused the left-wing La France insoumise of urging the movement to widen.
He said the difficulties of the lycées “must be heard”.
Mélenchon blamed the government for ordering the crackdown, said the pupils were harmless, and answered that LFI called for non-violent methods.
The government has offered a consultation platform, and Lecornu called an inter-ministerial crisis meeting on October 1. The union wants mass funding and a further day of action on October 6.
Illustration. FlyDubai Boeing.Wikimedia Commons, Konstantin von Wedelstaedt, GFDL-1.2
by Giulio Meotti
A terrorist stabbed a flight attendant and forced his way into the cockpit of a plane bound for Turkey with 170 people on board. The pilots reported they were under attack, transmitting the international hijack alarm code. When the Boeing 757 landed at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, the terrorist had already been neutralized by two security officers, one of whom was traveling undercover among the passengers. No one was injured.
That plot dated to 2002; the terrorist, Tawfiq Fukra, wanted to “redo 9/11″ by crashing into Israel. Shortly afterward, Israel ran a simulation: a skyscraper struck by an aircraft in the Israeli city of Givatayim. It was the first exercise of its kind, a scenario similar to the attack on New York’s Twin Towers.
The plot foiled in Dubai-an Omani pilot who wanted to crash a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv with 180 Israeli passengers on board-has brought back to mind numerous attacks stopped by Israelis. Another 9/11 was interrupted at cruising altitude thanks to the intervention of Israeli passengers. Some call it “militarization of the sky.” That is a euphemism used by people who live under sleepier skies.
Take the case of the spy Israel infiltrated into ISIS, who provided intelligence on a plan to bring down a passenger jet in Europe using a bomb hidden in a laptop. According to information Donald Trump incautiously revealed to the Russians, the device had been able to pass airport security checks undetected. The information was so reliable that the United States and the United Kingdom banned laptops in the cabin on many flights from the Middle East.
Here Israel did not stop a single already-boarded flight: it stopped a method intended for dozens of aircraft. Two years earlier, ISIS had already claimed the attack that blew up a Russian airliner over Sinai, killing more than two hundred people.
In 1986, on a flight from London to Tel Aviv, a Palestinian Arab, Nezar Hindawi, planted a bomb in the suitcase of a passenger-his companion, Anne Marie Murphy-who did not know she was carrying it. The plane was carrying four hundred people. The same year, on a flight from Madrid to Tel Aviv, Nasser Hassan al Ali tried to detonate a suitcase on a flight with a hundred passengers on board. Fast-forward to 2006, when an Israeli aircraft was the target of another terrorist plot. This time the plan centered on Frankfurt Airport.
In 2017, an Australian citizen sent his brother to Sydney Airport to board an Etihad Airways flight to Dubai, carrying a bomb disguised in a meat grinder and built on Islamic State instructions. Khaled Khayat and Mahmoud Khayat, the two terrorists, were sentenced to forty years in prison. “Israeli intelligence thwarted the downing of an Australian airliner; it would have been an unimaginable massacre,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Australia called it “one of the most sophisticated plots ever attempted on Australian soil.”
A year later, at a NATO summit, Netanyahu revealed that Israel had “stopped dozens of serious attacks, some against civil aviation,” including in Europe, “preventing hijacked planes from crashing into European cities.”
It was political confirmation of what the public sees only a fraction of. Israel had warned Belgian officials weeks before the attack about inadequate security measures at Brussels’ Zaventem Airport. The warning came from Israeli officials tasked with assessing security standards at airports operating flights to Tel Aviv. The Israelis had found “significant shortcomings” at the Belgian airport, which days later became the scene of the attacks. A member of the cell had also wanted to strike the gates for passengers to Tel Aviv and the United States.
This time, only the readiness of the Israelis on board made it possible to avoid a 9/11.
The Jewish State continues to land planes full of the living. The West should thank Israel every day for existing.
Reduxx can reveal that a leading figure behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization which promotes the medical ‘transitioning’ of children, has a long history of working with pro-pedophile academics. Eli Coleman, a former WPATH president who oversaw and influenced the Standards of Care for transgender medical protocols for decades, has professional ties to multiple academics who either defended or advocated favorably for adult-child sexual relations, and had himself previously drafted Standards of Care for sex offenders.
Coleman is an American sexologist, professor emeritus, and former director of the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (previously the Program in Human Sexuality) in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota — where WPATH was previously based for several years. Coleman was an instrumental figure in the development of WPATH Standards of Care (SOC), specifically contributing to the three most recent iterations: the sixth, seventh, and eighth editions.
Significantly, Coleman served as the Chair and Lead Author for the development of the Standards of Care 8, which recommended the validation of a “eunuch gender identity”, and would later be revised to remove specific age limitations on the prescription of puberty-halting drugs to children.
On December 3, 2021, WPATH released draft guidelines which included, for the first time, the category of ‘eunuch’ as a protected “gender identity.” WPATH’s SOC 8 recommends medical treatment and services for those with a self-declared gender identity, and describes the relationship between “eunuch-identified people and other transgender people.”
The document states, “Eunuch-identified people may share with other gender-diverse people a desire for reduction or elimination of masculine physical features, masculine genitals, or genital functioning.”
It also goes on to claim that “eunuch-identified people may suffer the same minority stress as other stigmatized groups,” and refers extensively to research collected from a hardcore fetish site called the Eunuch Archive — a site that features child sexual exploitation fantasies centered around stopping little boys from going through puberty, as well as erotic stories about sexually abusing children.
Through a series of investigative reports, Reduxx revealed that the Eunuch Archive, the forum sourced by WPATH, was co-founded by a man who would be convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a pedophile ring. Thomas Pidel was linked to over a dozen individuals who had subscriptions with a Belarus-based child pornography enterprise which sold thousands of paid memberships internationally to access child sexual abuse content.
Pidel, who described himself as a “boy lover,” was active in multiple Usenet groups dedicated to pedophilia activism and castration fetishism in the years just before his arrest in 2004. Some of the groups Pidel was active in during this time were alt.support.boy-lovers, alt.fan.prettyboy, and alt.eunuchs.questions, the latter of which would become the Eunuch Archive.
The most popular stories in the Eunuch Archive depict the forcible castration of children, and, as previously revealed by Reduxx, of the approximately 10,000 pornographic stories on the site, over one-third involved minors.
Three academics identified exclusively by Reduxx as having played a foundational role in the Eunuch Archive gathered opinions from anonymous forum members which were published as research. The leading figure behind this work, Professor Emeritus Thomas W. Johnson, presented research they co-authored together at a 2009 conference in Oslo held by WPATH.
🚨Reduxx has learned that an academic associated with the world's top transgender health authority was directly involved in the creation of erotic fantasies centered around the sexual slavery of children.
In the private, members-only area of the Eunuch Archive forum accessed by Reduxx, Johnson could be seen claiming he worked with Eli Coleman, and was personally invited to contribute to the development of the SOC 8.
In 2016, Johnson claimed to have been specifically chosen to rewrite a portion of the Standards of Care by former WPATH president Eli Coleman, who “pointed at me and announced that I was expected to provide input on eunuchs for the revision. Now is our opportunity to help devise the standards of care that will be most helpful.”
For nearly twenty years, the Eunuch Archive has hosted an annual “Meeting of Members.” The event has typically been held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where former WPATH president Eli Coleman has lived and worked for decades.
But the disturbing connections between Coleman and pedophile-adjacent academics does not end there. By purchasing archival records from a California-based university library, Reduxx learned that Coleman sought approval for his WPATH leadership position from a fellow sexologist, Vern Bullough, who had direct professional contact with a founding figure behind the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization which advocated for adult male homosexual relationships with children.
For years Bullough, himself a founding member of the organization which would become WPATH — The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), kept a formal correspondence with a founding member of NAMBLA, and the group’s attorney: Lawrence Stanley.
In July 1987, Stanley wrote to Bullough imploring him to read and consider his article “The Hysteria over Child Pornography and Pedophilia,” which was soon published in Paidika: The Journal of Pedophilia and Playboy. In an introductory letter, Stanley told Bullough: “With respect to sizeable collections of child pornography, it is my impression that the Kinsey Institute’s is larger than the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.”
Stanley’s article, “The Hysteria over Child Pornography and Pedophilia,” argued that law enforcement officers engage in deliberate entrapment schemes. “Under the guise of ‘protecting children,’ millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to investigate and prosecute would-be consumers of child pornography, many of them individuals who do not pose any immediate danger to children.”
Bullough replied in a letter dated January 1988, congratulating Stanley on the publication of his article. “As far as collections of movies of child porn, the San Francisco Institute is much larger, simply because the major distributors of porn films in the United States, particularly child porn, got rid of incriminating evidence by donating it to the Institute in San Francisco.”
In a follow-up letter the next month, Bullough suggested: “If you get good duplicates of material and don’t know where to send them, I would like to add to my collection, most of which is now in the California State University, Northridge, library.”
In September 1989, Stanley was found in possession of hundreds of child pornography publications, as well as five videotapes, which he had kept locked in a safe under his bed. As the court proceedings were underway in 1991, Bullough submitted a character testimonial in favor of Stanley, calling him a “knowledgeable professional in the field of human sexuality,” and that he would “strongly vouch for his character and integrity.”
Bullough wrote: “I have known Lawrence Stanley for four or five years and worked closely with him for part of that time in publishing a newsletter for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.”
Bullough, who was influential during the formative years of WPATH, would also go on to publish the academic journal Paidika: The Journal of Pedophilia, which advocated for sexual relationships between adults and children.
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Reduxx has learned that one of the founding academics behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health was a pedophile sympathizer.
Vern Bullough defended pedophiles and called opposition to child sexual abuse "hysteria."https://t.co/rxxQEK4HIF
Coleman and Bullough frequently contributed to the same sexology texts and compiled volumes throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Both served alongside each other on editorial and advisory boards for peer-reviewed academic journals in sexology, including the Journal of Sex Research.
“It would be very hard to find somebody that had so extensively studied so many areas within sexuality,” Coleman said. “Vern was all over the field — not in a superficial way but in a very deep way.”
Prior to working with WPATH on the Transgender Standards of Care, Coleman had also previously devised Sex Offender Standards of Care and advocated for the rights of sexual criminals and men with paraphilias, or sexual pathologies, including pedophilia.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, while directing the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota, Coleman co-authored and led the development of clinical treatment standards for adult sex offenders, and published an initial proposed set of clinical guidelines in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
Coleman partnered with a nun belonging to the Catholic organization Sisters of Mercy in order to promote medical treatments for sex offenders. In 1990, Eli Coleman and Sister Margretta Dwyer authored “Proposed Standards of Care for the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders”, which was published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. The document was subsequently approved by the United Nations as aligning with its Sustainable Development Goal 16, “Peace.”
“From puberty through adulthood, males more than females experience erotic fantasies and dreams of a paraphilic type. A paraphilia is a condition of compulsive response to, or dependence upon, an unusual and unacceptable stimulus in the imagery of fantasy, for optimal initiation and maintenance of sexual arousal, and the facilitation or attainment of orgasm,” write Coleman and Dwyer.
“Various ‘appropriate care’ philosophies have been suggested by many professionals who have identified themselves as experts on the topic of sex offenders,” the paper continues. “Although some standards exist, until the present, no statement of the ‘Standards of Care’ to be offered to the sex offender has received official sanction by any identified viable professional group.”
Coleman led the first International Conference on the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (ICTSO) in 1989 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This event was followed by two further conferences in the same city in 1991 and 1993. The fourth conference, in 1995, was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
As the founding organizer of the ICTSO series, Coleman co-chaired and organized the Amsterdam meeting alongside European hosts. In that role, he would have had significant influence over who was invited to participate in the meeting.
At the inaugural First International Conference on the Treatment of Sexual Offenders in Minneapolis, Coleman invited a Norwegian psychologist and sexologist with deep connections to multinational pro-pedophilia advocacy, including the now-disbanded Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) of England.
Thore Langfeldt was among the international participants invited by Eli Coleman and the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota to the first conference, which served as the initial gathering to build an international network of clinicians and set the groundwork for the collaborative drafting of the Standards of Care for the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders. He also attended and spoke at the subsequent three conferences organized by Coleman.
Thore Langfeldt has written extensively about “child sexuality” and positively conveyed case studies of pedophilic relationships throughout the 1970s and 80’s. His academic publications sought to portray adult-child sexual contact as normal and non-pathological.
Reduxx has learned that a pro-pedophilia activist spoke on transitioning children at a conference held by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Thore Langfeldt stated that toddlers may become sexually active from the age of 2.https://t.co/IcaRpAZ5SI
Previously a schoolteacher, Langfeldt was involved with the Norwegian pro-pedophile organization called the Pedophile Working Group (Pedofil Arbeidsgruppe – NAFP) in the 1970’s. The NAFP was established at the University of Oslo in 1975, where the group had registered a post office box – and where Langfeldt was specializing in psychology. That year, Langfeldt wrote a letter to the Ministry of Justice requesting an alteration to the criminal code which would lower the legal age of consent from 16 to 14 years old.
The NAFP directly invited the leader of the Paedophile Information Exchange to speak at a panel event in Oslo, the Amnesty for Love and Affection conference, at the Hotel Viking in June of 1979.
While attending the inaugral ICTSO, having been invited by Coleman, Langfeldt argued that sex offenders can be identified in childhood, and that some boys, even as young as toddlers, have an urge to castrate themselves. “We have known that these children have existed for a long time, but people working at the kindergarten level have refused to acknowledge the existence of sexuality in children,” Langfeldt said.
Following his participation in the Minneapolis and Amsterdam meetings, Langfeldt joined Eli Coleman as a co-author and reviewer of the subsequent revisions of the Standards of Care for the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders.
However, Coleman’s professional relationship with Langfeldt did not end there. In 2009, Langfeldt organized a WPATH conference in Oslo — the same conference attended by academic representatives of the pedophilic forum the Eunuch Archive, who claim to have been invited directly by Coleman himself to contribute to WPATH Standards of Care.
On June 18 of that year, Langfeldt presented on the topic of “The Child in the Discourse of Transsexualism.” According to the abstract, Langfeldt’s lecture used “cases from the shemale movements and pornography to question the medical discourse and its power in forming the child into a suitable medical diagnosis.”
The ICTSO series, of which both Coleman and Langfeldt are charter members, was rebranded during the fifth international conference. The International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) was formally founded on March 24, 1998, formalizing the ongoing international conference series that Eli Coleman and his colleagues had initiated in Minneapolis in 1989.
Langfeldt was selected by the IATSO Scientific Committee to deliver a headline plenary address in the conference’s main hall on Friday, August 29, 2025, titled “The history and current state of our understanding of pedophilia.” During his presentation, Langfeldt argued that minor-directed attractions should be evaluated as a disorder requiring treatment.
Similarly, the Norwegian psychologist served as the Scientific Conference President for the 11th International IATSO Conference, which was held in Oslo, Norway, from September 1–4, 2010. Just months before, in June, the Sexual Offender Treatment, IATSO’s official academic journal, published Langfeldt’s article: Is “Pedophilia” a Useful or a Confusing Concept? An Empirical Study on Sexual Abuse of Children, Sexual Orientation and Typology: Implications for Therapy.
Protocols devised by Coleman to treat sex offenders included the recommended usage of anti-androgens, sometimes referred to as chemical castration when used in a punitive sense. For decades, Coleman has written about the treatment of pedophilia with pharmacological management alongside cognitive therapy.
As clinical options evolved, Coleman, alongside fellow researchers, have reviewed the efficacy of more recently-developed GnRH agonists, such as Lupron, which lower testosterone levels to castrate men with pedophilic tendencies.
After devising Standards of Care for the treatment of pedophiles, Coleman’s work shifted towards Standards of Care for WPATH, or “transgender health,” which advise clinicians to administer castrating drug Lupron to children. Protocols published by WPATH recommending the medical “transitioning” of children through the use of drugs which halt puberty have since been implemented internationally, and in 2022, the transgender health authority removed specific minimum age requirements for puberty-blocking drugs such as Lupron, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries that were present in previous drafts.
Early versions of the WPATH Standards of Care, and specifically revisions 1 through 5, published between 1979 and 1998, explicitly listed the administrative contact address as: Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis.
Coleman’s personal academic office at the University of Minnesota served as the official publicly listed mailing headquarters for WPATH for years. This exact suite housed the University’s Program in Human Sexuality, now renamed the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, where Coleman served as director and professor emeritus.
Mr Munye described homosexual acts as a ‘crime’, before noting that participants are ‘executed’ under Sharia law | YOUTUBE/DAARHADEETH
A preacher at a London mosque has sparked backlash after encouraging Muslims to “discipline” their wives if they are disobedient.
The Hackney Islamic Community Centre, which has charitable status, publishes lectures given at the mosque to its YouTube channel.
In one sermon, a teacher describes homosexual intercourse as “one of the most evil of acts”, while another shows the same preacher hailing Saudi Arabia for executing those suspected of “witchcraft”.
Yasin Munye delivered a lecture posted on the channel where he reads from Manthumatu al-Kaba’ir, a poem which outlines what are considered major sins in the religion.
He notes one as: “Disobeying the husband, leaving the house without his permission, and disobeying the husband when it comes to calling her to bed, when it comes to calling her for intimacy, when she says ‘no’ without any excuse.”
Mr Munye adds: “Advise her, and boycott her in bed, don’t touch her in bed – and discipline them physically as well, by lightly hitting them to show them who is in charge.”
The preacher goes on to describe homosexual acts as a “crime”, before noting that participants are “executed” under Sharia law.
He said: “Scholars, they differ on how the execution occurs. Some of them say he is executed through the sword, like every other normal execution.
The Hackney Islamic Community Centre’s charitable status allows the mosque to be exempt from paying a number of taxes.
According to its published accounts, it did not pay a penny on the £191,097 income it received in the year to March 2025.
Just shy of £155,000 of the total income was raised through donations.
The mosque describes its purpose as assisting “mankind” through its push to “advance the Islamic faith”.
The Hackney Islamic Community Centre re-registered its charitable status in April – a move branded “alarming” by National Secular Society (NSS) head of campaigns Megan Manson.
She said: “Hackney Islamic Community Centre is just one of many charities promoting misogyny, homophobia and other harmful ideologies through the charitable purpose of ‘the advancement of religion’.
“This charitable purpose must be urgently reviewed. It is evidently facilitating the advancement of ideas which, far from benefiting the public, could fuel discrimination, division and abuse.”
The NSS has reported the mosque to the Charity Commission, warning that the content it pushes out are not compatible with holding charitable status.
The Charity Commission confirmed it has received the complaint and will weigh up the concerns outlined before determining whether to launch a statutory inquiry.
A spokesman said: “The Commission has clear expectations that all charities, regardless of their purpose, must operate for the public benefit and provide a safe and trusted environment for all.
“Concerns have been raised with us about alleged sermons and social media content linked to Hackney Islamic Community Centre and we have opened a regulatory compliance case to further assess these. This will determine any next steps.”
Earlier this year, the Charity Commission refused to censure Hatch End Islamic Centre preacher Ahmed Shah, despite him declaring it was “mandatory” for women to serve their husbands in a now-deleted sermon.
Instead of taking away its charitable status, the commission insisted it would offer “advice and guidance” to the north London mosque.
GB News has approached the Hackney Islamic Community Centre for comment.
A seminar to train British police officers about Islam used Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage and other Reform UK party figures in lessons on “prejudice” and racially aggravated crimes.
British police officers who attended the York and North Yorkshire Hate Crime Conference in 2025 were treated to a heavy-handed seminar in which delegates were taught that Islam is compatible with British values, that women are not oppressed by Islam, and that views expressed by mainstream British politicians should be legally actionable, according to footage leaked to a British newspaper.
The Daily Telegraphstated the presentation to officers was given by former cop, Abbas Najib, who now runs the Better Communities Bradford activism group, and that it was intended to bust “myths and misconceptions about Islam”. The session told the audience that “Muslims, the immigrant, the brown person” are scapegoated by society, while the problems are actually down to “the rich”, the report states.
Several prominent British politicians were used to illustrate hate crime, with top politicians now involved with Reform UK featuring heavily, among them Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Michael Gove, and Matt Goodwin. Najib is reported to have said that if Islamosceptic remarks by such politicians had been said about Jewish communities instead, the politicians would have been arrested, and that the same approach should apply to scepticism of Islam.
Attendees were challenged to consider whether Nigel Farage speaking causes physical hate crimes to happen in real life, and to “draw your own conclusions”.
Further, it is stated that typed materials handed out to attendees stated that Islam is compatible with the recently coined modern British values, and that it doesn’t oppress women.
The revelations about the form of training given to some police officers on Islam and what is called Islamophobia may go some way to explain why it is that some British police forces appear to have become so proactive in pursuing not just criminal speech, but non-criminal “hate incidents” as well. A report from the Free Speech Union earlier this month revealed an enormous disparity in arrest rates between British police forces, with some arresting ten times as many people as others.
The footage published by The Telegraph also recalls a report published last week by Policy Exchange, blowing the whistle on what they said was an erosion of police impartiality by the spread of special interest staff networks, and particularly the association of Muslim police officers. This organisation is among those that have politicised policing, they claimed, stating it was pushing for terms like “Islamist” to be phased out by police because it drives “Islamophobia”.
David Sanchez, brother of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and Miguel Angel Gallardo, former leader of the Extremadura branch of the ruling party PSOE, attend the start of their trial at the provincial court of Badajoz, Spain, 28 May 2026. Screengrab youtube
The leader of a drug-trafficking clan in southwest Spain has told Guardia Civil investigators that a member of the network around Leire Díez, the former Socialist official known in Spain as the party’s plumber, asked her to have the judge who investigated Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s brother removed from the case.
Officers of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) travelled to Badajoz on September 24 and questioned Cintia Rocho, head of the Los Rochos clan, for four hours at the local barracks, which reported the interviews on September 30. She said a member of the network had supplied her with detailed personal information about the private life of magistrate Beatriz Biedma.
Rocho named Luis José Sáenz de Tejada, a former judge struck off in December 2022 after convictions for domestic violence offences. He has since run a YouTube channel from which he attacks judges, prosecutors and journalists.
Investigators questioned a second man the same day as a witness. He is said to have acted as intermediary with a trafficker known as El Gitano, meeting Sáenz de Tejada in a café in Badajoz in late 2024 and taking delivery of photographs documenting the surveillance of Biedma and her two young daughters.
The trafficker was questioned in prison at 7.30am on September 25. He confirmed that his intermediary had told him the network’s interest extended to other female judges as well as to Biedma.
Biedma led the investigation that ended in the conviction of David Sánchez in July, when the Badajoz provincial court found the Prime Minister’s brother guilty of administrative malfeasance over a post created for him at the provincial council.
Spain’s National Court has admitted the magistrate as a private prosecutor in the case against the Díez network. Investigating judge Santiago Pedraz restricted that to a possible offence of slander and declined, for the moment, to open a specific line of inquiry into a note found in Díez’s diary referring to a judge in Badajoz, heroin and a clan name.
Pedraz said the UCO could not establish the significance of the note without further material. He is separately examining whether the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) can be charged as a legal person in the wider case.
Biedma is due to give evidence on October 8. Díez has consistently denied running any smear campaign against officials investigating the party.
The PSOE has said that neither Díez, a former member, nor Santos Cerdán, its former organisation secretary, holds any post in the party, and that it is not itself a party to the proceedings. The Guardia Civil and the interior ministry have made no public statement on the Badajoz questioning, which was first reported by El País.
A 22-year-old Syrian man is accused of seriously assaulting several rail passengers in Cologne in June during a rampage attack. However, details have now emerged of just how serious this man’s criminal history is after a parliamentary request from politician Markus Wagner of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Currently, the Syrian remains in a psychiatric hospital while prosecutors investigate, but the man’s long history of criminal offenses is truly remarkable.
Federal police said the attacks began about 3:10 p.m. on June 21 at the Cologne-Trimbornstrasse stop. A police spokeswoman said a 22-year-old man “grabbed a traveler and tried to pull him toward the tracks.” Both fell to the ground. Bystanders pulled them apart, but the victim suffered bruises and abrasions.
Police told Westdeutscher Rundfunk that the witnesses “behaved correctly” by acting together and separating the attacker from the victim.
The suspect then boarded an S19 train toward Cologne Central Station, police said. Near the Cologne Messe/Deutz stop he suddenly punched two passengers in the face, according to witnesses and video.
At the main station, in a fast-food restaurant, he punched and kicked a 47-year-old man and continued striking him on the ground after federal officers arrived.
Officers managed to detain the man and later said he was under the influence of narcotics.
He was taken to a psychiatric facility. The Justice Ministry said he “is currently provisionally accommodated in a psychiatric hospital” under Section 126a of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a measure used when investigators believe a suspect may have acted without full criminal responsibility.
Cologne prosecutors are investigating, among other counts, intentional bodily harm, attempted dangerous bodily harm and attempted dangerous interference with rail traffic, the ministry said.
Asked what police already knew about the suspect, the government listed suspected prior offenses that had led to complaints or investigations: five thefts, one case of receiving stolen goods, one robbery, one insult, three threats, 11 assaults, 13 dangerous assaults, 11 narcotics violations, one rape allegation, one count of resisting officers, two property-damage cases and two fraud cases.
However, none of these arrests have resulted in convictions. The ministry stressed that police records “rest on suspicion” and “do not allow a conclusion on the correctness of the allegation.”
Regarding formal prior sentences, the government said the man’s Federal Central Register extract “shows solely sanctions under youth criminal law that are not entered in the certificate of good conduct.”
In other words, most of these offenses were either handled in juvenile court or were never formally tried in court due to the man’s psychological state. German youth-court measures often do not appear on the clearance certificate employers and agencies commonly request, meaning these criminal entries would not be available to potential employers.
Asked about citizenship, the ministry wrote that, “as far as known,” the suspect has Syrian nationality.
Notably, he has never been deported despite the trail of mayhem he has left behind him.
