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In 2025, France is seeing a significant shift in its non-EU immigration landscape, with first-time residence permits projected to reach 384,000 — an 11.2 percent increase from the previous year. This growth is uniquely defined by a massive 65 percent surge in permits granted on humanitarian grounds, primarily to refugees and those seeking subsidiary protection.

The legal foreign population in France is expected to hit approximately 4.5 million by the end of 2025, a 3.2 percent annual increase. However, previous reports have put the total population of foreigners at much higher levels, already reaching 6 million in 2024. While humanitarian reasons are the primary driver for new arrivals, the “stock” of residents remains heavily influenced by family ties and labor needs.

The purpose of residency varies drastically depending on the country of origin, reflecting France’s diverse historical and geopolitical ties. As French news outlet Fdesouche notes, “Nationals of the three Maghreb countries are more often issued with residence permits granted for family reunification reasons.” These countries consist of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. However, these groups are also now being granted work permits, with the government arguing they can be used to fill labor shortages.

For China and the United States, most of the permits being issued are for studying and academic research.

Meanwhile, Afghans receive residence permits almost entirely based on humanitarian reasons. To a lesser extent, Ukrainians and Ivorians also receive such first-time permits.

Renewals are approaching a milestone of 1 million per year (955,000 projected for 2025). This trend confirms that a vast majority of non-EU immigrants who arrive in France are transitioning into long-term legal residents, despite stricter new integration requirements — such as the mandatory civic exam and A2-level French proficiency introduced in the 2024-2026 reforms. Notably, A2 is considered a rudimentary level of language understanding.

🇫🇷🔴 Paris is paying €1.2 billion per year on migrant accommodations, according to French politician @eciotti.

"An average of 50,000 hotel rooms are paid for by the (Paris) regional prefecture, mainly for foreigners seeking asylum. 1.2 billion euros a year." pic.twitter.com/fo5N7BLZvW

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Last year, demographic researcher and data analyst Marc Vanguard reported that “the foreign population in France is growing FOUR times faster than the population of French nationality.”

The rapid demographic change has led academics, researchers, literary figures, and politicians to dub this trend the Great Replacement.

In 2022, famed French author Michel Houellebecq came out and said the Great Replacement is a “fact” during a wide-ranging discussion with influential French philosopher Michel Onfray.

“The Great Replacement, I was shocked it’s called a theory. It’s not a theory, it’s a fact,” said Houellebecq. “When it comes to immigration, nobody controls anything; that’s the whole problem. Europe will be swept away by this cataclysm.”

“It’s objectively what the figures say,” added Onfray, who said he thinks that the decline of the West is primarily a demographic decline. 

The fact that France’s greatest living writer, as he is often described by the mainstream press, has said the Great Replacement is a fact will only add to the growing body of intellectuals, academics, and politicians who have increasingly been willing to describe the Great Replacement in public forums over the years.

Notably, the vast majority of the French want serious immigration restrictions put in place, while a tremendous 53 percent of women want zero immigration into the country, according to polling.

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The German state has paid out a record sum in child benefits to recipients abroad in 2025, latest numbers by the Federal Employment Agency (BfA) show.

Altogether, €528 million in benefits were transferred to foreign bank accounts, the highest sum so far.

Child benefits transferred abroad have rapidly risen over the past years. In 2010, Germany only transferred €36 million abroad. In 2024, the total had already risen to €514 million.

Altogether, the country paid out €55.3 billion in child benefits in 2025, meaning that the transfers to foreign bank accounts account for about 1 per cent of total pay-outs.

The majority of the foreign transfers went to European Union member states, primarily Poland, Romania, Czechia and France.

The BfA cautions that a foreign bank account does not automatically mean that the child for whom the benefits are paid is also living abroad as migrants may retain their old bank accounts after moving to Germany.

Out of the 17.6 million children for whom child benefits were paid, though, more than 3.9 million – or 22 per cent – did not have German citizenship. This means almost €13 billion in benefits were paid to non-German recipients.

The biggest groups of non-German recipients are Turkish people, followed by Ukrainians.

The right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) commented on the numbers, saying the German child benefits system needed an overhaul.

AfD MP René Springer said: “As in Denmark, entitlement for foreigners should be linked to clear conditions: A valid residence permit and several years of gainful employment. This is the only way to stop immigration into our social systems on the basis of attractive social benefits.”

Currently, Germany generally pays child benefits of €259 per month to all parents (or other caretakers of children) residing in Germany for children aged 0 to 17. For EU citizens employment in Germany is not a necessary condition to receive the benefits due to EU regulation.

The system has repeatedly been exploited by fraudsters. In February 2025, for example, authorities in Duisburg (North Rhine Westphalia) uncovered a large-scale fraud operation by “families from south-eastern Europe” – primarily gypsies from Romania and Bulgaria – who had falsely registered children to take in child benefits.

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The Swedish government announced this week that it plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13-years-old as it seeks to confront the rampant use of youths by criminal gangs.

At a press conference on Monday, representatives of the governing Tidö coalition government said that the criminal age of responsibility for the most serious crimes, such as murder and attempted murder, will be gradually lowered over the next five years to 13, Aftonbladet reported.

They said the change would affect crimes with a minimum prison sentence of four years, as well as attempts or conspiracies to commit such crimes.

The planned legislation from the governing parties would also eliminate the lighter sentencing requirements for people aged 18 to 20 years old and increase the maximum sentence for minors from 14 to 18 years in prison.

It comes in response to the growing issue of criminal networks recruiting young teenagers, often from impoverished minority and migrant communities, as those under 18 face less imprisonment than adults. As long ago as 2015, Swedish police told Breitbart News how mass migration was transforming the crime picture in the country, with migrant criminal gangs importing a whole new type of lawlessness into what had once been a relatively peaceful corner of Europe.

The issue has become so rampant that gang-affiliated teenagers in Sweden are regularly contracted out as mercenaries to networks in neighbouring countries like Denmark, where they serve as hitmen or other criminal-for-hire activities.

The proposed change in the age of criminal responsibility has drawn some criticism within the country, with some arguing that imprisoning children may serve to increase the likelihood they remain criminals.

However, Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer said that the changes are necessary given the widespread proliferation of youth gang violence.

“One of our absolutely crucial tasks is to put a stop to the gangs’ use of children and young people,” Strömmer said per SVT. “We have an urgent situation, and the measures we take must reflect the problems we have.”

The proliferation of gang violence in Sweden, which is often conducted by kingpins in the Middle East, came in the wake of large-scale demographic change as a result of the open borders policies of the previous Social Democrat government, which resulted in one in five people living in Sweden being foreign-born.

The centre-right coalition government of Ulf Kristersson has sought to reverse course, with Sweden recording net negative immigration for the first time in decades in 2024. The government is also set to make it more difficult to become a citizen, including by requiring eight years of residency rather than five and income requirements.

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Spain’s left-wing government on Tuesday approved an extraordinary plan to grant legal status to illegal migrants by decree, marking a further break with tougher migration policies elsewhere in Europe. The measure, agreed upon between the Socialist-led executive and Podemos with the backing of other left-wing groups, is expected to include around half a million immigrants.

The reform will be implemented via Royal Decree, a route that avoids parliamentary ratification, where the governing coalition lacks a majority. According to the agreement, the objective is to “guarantee rights and provide legal certainty to an existing social reality.”

Eligibility will extend to migrants who can prove at least five months of residence in Spain, have no significant criminal record, and were present in the country before the end of 2025. The regularization will also apply to their children already living in Spain. The application period is expected to open in April and run until the end of June. Filing an application will suspend deportation or return procedures.

Migration Minister Elma Saiz said beneficiaries would be able to work “in any sector, in any part of the country,” stressing “the positive impact” of migration. “We are talking about estimations, probably more or less the figures may be around half a million people,” she said, according to AFP.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has defended the policy as economically necessary in a country facing demographic decline and labor shortages. He has also argued that migration has been a key driver of Spain’s recent economic growth.

Podemos has framed the agreement as a victory for rights and social justice after months of negotiations. Party representatives argued that immigrants in Spain so far lacked basic human rights and were targeted by the police. Criminal records and already substantial benefits for immigrants say otherwise.

The announcement prompted an immediate backlash from the center-right People’s Party (PP) and right-wing nationalist VOX. PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo strongly criticized the move on social media, despite previously siding with the government on pro-mass immigration policies.

“Up to 46 dead. Hundreds injured. Not a single resignation. And Sánchez’s first response is a mass regularization to divert attention, increase the pull factor, and overwhelm our public services,” he wrote, referring to the recent train catastrophe in Spain. “In socialist Spain, illegality is rewarded,” he added.

PP argued that the government had failed to explain how integration would be managed or how the measure would affect housing, healthcare, education, and social services, claiming it would shift the burden to “neighborhoods, municipalities, and regional governments.” “Regularizing immigration without genuine integration benefits doesn’t improve anyone’s life. It fuels the underground economy, increases pressure on public services, and generates social frustration,” the PP said.

VOX leader Santiago Abascal reacted even more sharply. “500,000 illegals! The tyrant Sánchez hates the Spanish people. He wants to replace them. That’s why he intends to create a pull factor by decree, to accelerate the invasion,” he wrote. “This must be stopped. Repatriations, deportations, and remigration,” he added.

Police unions have already spoken out against the decree that might see the largest regularization in its history if it surpasses the figure set in 2005. The National Police union SUP declared in a statement, “It is a mass regularization without resources, it responds to a political calculation and puts security at risk.” The SUP highlighted how the decision will create an immediate pull factor for immigrants trying to avoid deportation. Police forces and other related social resources are not prepared for such an immense pressure, as they are already saturated by dealing with the immigrants already inside their borders.

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Fifty-five years ago, Democrat activist and community organizer Saul Alinsky published Rules for Radicals. Its stated purpose was not reform, persuasion, or compromise, but disruption — manufacturing chaos, provoking conflict, and inciting revolution as a means of political change. 

Alinsky was explicit: power is seized, not earned, and the ends always justify the means. More than half a century later, the book has not faded into obscurity. It remains the Left’s operating manual — its tactical guide and its justification for tearing down institutions in the name of “progress.” 

Alinsky prescribed a deliberate three-step process for political change — one rooted not in persuasion, but in pressure. We are watching Alinsky’s guerrilla warfare techniques play out in real time in Minneapolis right now.

The first step is to create a crisis.

Alinsky argued that in a complex society, people do not act until they are forced to. The organizer’s job is to trigger a crisis by “rubbing raw the sores of discontent.” The crisis must be intensified to generate motivation.

Over the past year, Democrats nationwide have relentlessly vilified ICE agents for doing their lawful job — enforcing federal immigration law. Agents tasked with apprehending illegal aliens are portrayed not as law enforcement, but as villains, fascists, and moral monsters. This rhetoric has not merely poisoned public discourse; it has actively encouraged confrontation between federal agents and radical protesters.

Even as this Democrat-designed and Democrat-sustained conflict has resulted in real-world tragedy, Minnesota’s leadership continues to escalate rather than de-escalate. Tim Walz has repeatedly attempted to delegitimize ICE itself, asserting that its agents are “not law enforcement” — a claim that is both false and dangerously inflammatory.

Never mind that illegal presence in the United States is itself a violation of federal law, or that many individuals apprehended by ICE are repeat offenders charged with serious crimes including rape, assault, and homicide. By erasing these facts, Democratic leaders shift blame away from criminal behavior and onto those tasked with enforcing the law.

Crucially, this crisis is not universal. In states where local authorities cooperate with ICE, deportation numbers are significantly higher and enforcement proceeds with low to nonexistent public disorder.

In Minnesota, Democratic leadership has chosen confrontation over cooperation. By encouraging hostility toward ICE and refusing meaningful coordination with federal authorities, they have manufactured a volatile environment — one where enforcement becomes dangerous, chaos becomes predictable, and outrage becomes the objective.

This is not accidental. It is textbook Alinsky: provoke, polarize, and escalate until crisis itself becomes the lever of power.

The second step is to blame the target and personalize it.

Alinsky famously instructed organizers to “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Institutions are abstract. By isolating a single person or group and turning them into the embodiment of evil, the organizer simplifies the conflict and focuses public rage where it can do the most damage. 

In Minnesota, that target has been ICE — and by extension, the individual agents tasked with enforcing the law. Rather than supporting the rule of law, Democrat leaders have inverted reality — demonizing the American agents carrying out federal statutes. These men and women are portrayed as Nazis rather than public servants — an accusation so obscene it would once have ended a serious political career. 

At the same time, the individuals ICE is charged with apprehending are recast as victims, saints, or symbols of moral righteousness — no matter their criminal histories. Violent offenders are defended. Illegal status is ignored. Responsibility is shifted entirely away from lawbreakers and onto those enforcing the law. 

This is not accidental rhetoric. It is deliberate personalization. By turning ICE agents into the face of evil, Democratic leaders focus public anger on a human target rather than a policy debate. Moral clarity is replaced with emotional manipulation, and law enforcement becomes the enemy.

The third step is the ultimate objective — to force the “solution.” Once the crisis has paralyzed the target and public pressure has peaked, the organizer presents the solution. This solution, however, is framed not as one option among many, but as the only path forward: accept it or face escalating chaos.

This is the Left’s only solution: President Donald Trump must remove ICE from Minneapolis and effectively cease deportation operations nationwide.

Those enforcing the law are blamed, those breaking it are excused, and the public is told that the only way to stop the disorder is to surrender authority.

This is not accidental disorder. It is intentional political warfare, designed to use instability as leverage until the Democrats get what they want — illegal voters imported under the Biden regime to give them political power.

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At the start of the appeal trial against four defendants in the murder of Samuel Paty, the lawyer for one of them accused the history and geography teacher, who was beheaded by a Chechen Islamist in 2020, of ‘discriminating’ against Muslims. These comments provoked a widespread reaction. At the opening of the appeal trial for the murder of Samuel Paty on Monday, January 26, the lawyer for Islamist preacher Abdelhakim Sefrioui, who was on trial along with three other people, suggested that the history and geography teacher, who was beheaded by a Chechen Islamist in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in 2020, ‘discriminated against Muslims’.

‘The beheading of Samuel Paty is so horrific that it overshadows the entire case. There is a taboo because we are not allowed to say that he discriminated against Muslim students,’ said Francis Vuillemin. ‘But I will say it loud and clear throughout the trial and not just when I make my closing statement,’ he added to the press, before clarifying: ‘He (Paty, editor’s note) said it was to protect the students from this cartoon, but we do not protect anyone in the school of the Republic by discriminating, by asking students to identify themselves on the basis of their religion.’ ‘This will form the basis of the defence,’ concluded Francis Vuillemin.

A speech that clearly does not please Samuel Paty’s sister. ‘I know that this is his defence for this appeal trial, it was much less the case in the first trial,’ said Gaëlle Paty on BFM TV. ‘He is being accused of being responsible for his own death, which is absolutely outrageous,’ laments the co-author of the book Samuel Paty, A Trial for the Future, before adding: ‘It is so far away from who he was. On the contrary, my brother was someone who was extremely tolerant and curious about religions.’ As for Virginie Le Roy, the lawyer representing the parents of the murdered teacher and his sister, she described her colleague’s remarks as ‘purely and simply scandalous and indecent’.
In the first instance trial, the eight defendants (seven men and one woman) were all found guilty and sentenced to between one and ten years in prison. Four of them will be retried before the Special Court of Appeal in Paris until February 27. On the first day of the hearing, all of them denied the charges against them.

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by Greg Richter 

A new academic claim circulating online  that William Shakespeare was actually a black Jewish woman is drawing skepticism and ridicule, with critics calling it a textbook case of ideology-driven historical revisionism.

The argument appeared in a January 16 post on Media@LSE, a blog affiliated with the London School of Economics, previewing an upcoming book asserting that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Emilia Bassano, a poet and court musician active in early 17th-century England. 

The author argues that Bassano was of Jewish heritage and possibly North African descent, and that she concealed her authorship behind a male pseudonym to survive in what the article characterizes as a racist and sexist literary culture. The claim is framed not merely as a question of authorship, but as an act of cultural recovery meant to challenge what is described as a historically “white, male” canon.

Notably absent from the argument, however, is any new documentary evidence. Instead, the article relies heavily on contemporary academic theory, invoking thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Gayatri Spivak to argue that authorship itself is a social construct shaped by power and exclusion. In this framework, the lack of direct proof becomes part of the thesis.

The response from outside progressive academic circles has been harsh.

British commentator Alex Armstrong dismissed the claim as “absurd” on GB News, arguing that it reflects modern ideological fashion rather than historical scholarship. Online responses have ranged from disbelief to open mockery, with critics comparing the theory to past fringe claims that have failed to gain traction.

Shakespeare’s authorship has been challenged mulitple times, though none of the alternatives has displaced the scholarly consensus. Among the most frequently cited theories are:

• Francis Bacon, the philosopher and statesman, whose supporters argue the plays display elite legal and scientific knowledge.
• Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an aristocrat whose education and courtly life are said to align with the plays’ settings.
• Christopher Marlowe, whose advocates claim he faked his death and continued writing under another name.
• William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, a nobleman with documented theatrical interests.
• Collaborative or “committee” theories, suggesting multiple writers contributed to the canon.

None of these theories has persuaded mainstream scholars, who point instead to contemporaneous references to Shakespeare as a playwright, business records tying him to the London theater world, and the absence of credible evidence pointing elsewhere.

Fact-checkers have also have rejected the Bassano claim. An analysis by Australian Associated Press FactCheck notes that while Bassano was a real, published poet, best known for her 1611 work Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, there is no documentary basis for attributing Shakespeare’s plays to her.

EA Daily emphasizes that Shakespeare scholars overwhelmingly regard the theory as speculative and unsupported, putting it within a tradition of authorship claims driven more by dissatisfaction with the past than by evidence. 

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A Norwegian man facing charges of human trafficking, prostitution, and the exploitation of women was permitted to change his legal sex marker to ‘female’ ahead of his trial, and is now being referred to as a woman in court. Harald Tancred Paulsrud Bye, 36, is accused of sex trafficking three “particularly vulnerable” women, two of whom are mentally impaired.

According to court records provided to Reduxx by a source close to the case, the offenses are alleged to have occurred between April and October 2024. The first charge against Bye, abuse of a vulnerable situation or other improper conduct, is said to have involved him forcing a woman to provide sexual acts. The offense is considered aggravated, with “particular weight being placed on the fact that the victim was mentally disabled and that gross coercion was used.”

To protect the dignity of the victims, Reduxx has chosen to use pseudonyms for all three women who are reported to have been sexually abused.

The charges allege that Bye sex trafficked a young woman diagnosed with a mild intellectual disability and fetal alcohol syndrome for six months. Reduxx will refer to her as ‘Maren’ in this article.

They further allege that Bye forced Maren to have sex with multiple people by ‘exerting pressure, shouting, manipulating, threatening and pushing,’ and by exploiting her intellectual disability and cognitive functioning.

According to the charges, Bye took control of Maren’s finances and her social media accounts. He then created profiles in her name on Grindr, Gaysir, and Telegram, using those accounts—along with his own—to arrange meetings with men who agreed to pay for sexual access to her.

On at least three occasions in September of 2024, Bye arranged for Maren to perform oral sex on another man, and to be penetrated vaginally and anally.

During the same period, Bye is also alleged to have exploited another woman with an intellectual disability.

Some of the incidents are said to have occurred in Sweden between June and September 2024. Bye allegedly forced a woman identified here as ‘Ragna’ to ‘enter into a polyamorous relationship’ with him and Maren, and repeatedly sexually abused both women, sometimes at the same time.

Bye is also alleged to have used Grindr again in an attempt to prostitute a third woman with a mental disability. The allegations state that he ‘attempted to force, exploit or induce a person into prostitution or other sexual acts and forced services,’ and that he sent messages to ‘a large number of persons’ on Grindr offering sexual intercourse with the woman in exchange for payment. The attempt was unsuccessful, but the charges are considered aggravated due to his alleged use of ‘gross coercion.’

The charges also describe a similar case in 2020 involving three other women. Prosecutors allege that Bye coerced and exploited them by involving them in a polyamorous sexual relationship.

Additional charges against Bye involve fraud, including taking control of one of his intellectually vulnerable victim’s finances and enriching himself by exploiting her dyscalculia and dyslexia.

The indictment describes an alleged broader aggravated fraud scheme where Bye allegedly gained access to one of his victim’s banking and credit lines and ran up large debts in her name. Prosecutors say this included credit loans totaling NOK 23,468, a Remember Black Mastercard with an NOK 80,000 limit that allegedly ballooned into NOK 113,069 in debt, and the opening of a new bank account where the victim’s August welfare benefit of NOK 23,417 was redirected and spent.

They further allege he used her Klarna account for purchases and travel bookings totaling NOK 56,031, and that additional installment purchases were sent to collections, producing losses described in the indictment. Alongside that, he is accused of obtaining or ordering multiple high-end phones in her name without intent to pay—activity that prosecutors say caused Telia losses of NOK 121,288, plus further losses claimed by OneCall (NOK 2,034) and Telenor (NOK 16,210)—while also allegedly reselling devices and directing portions of the proceeds, including NOK 8,451 and NOK 11,000, into his own account.

The amounts listed in the indictment total the equivalent of approximately $37,000 USD.

National broadcaster NRK protected Bye’s identity when reporting on the trial this week, and referred to him with feminine pronouns. The taxpayer-funded outlet reported that Bye, who has already altered his legal sex from male to female, argued in court that he had a “difficult childhood.”

On the first day in court, Bye reportedly stated: “I don’t know what I did wrong.”

However, just three years ago Bye can be seen describing himself as a “psychopath” and boasting of his extensive abuses of vulnerable women. In 2022, Bye was convicted in Bergen District Court for a series of criminal offenses, including financial fraud and theft. Bye exploited women he was in relationships with, and used threats and coercion to manipulate them.

Bizarrely, in 2023, Bye reached out to Underdog Media Group, an independent media production company, to publicly “confess” his many crimes, prompting the company to explore producing a documentary on him. During the course of the documentary’s filming, Bye can be seen abusing and manipulating women he forms relationships with, and in one case, convinced a woman to take out over 1 million Norwegian kroner in loans in order to buy cars in his name.

TV presenter Kjell-Ola Kleiven conducted a series of interviews with Bye for the two-part documentary, which was titled Psykopaten.

After their first interaction, in which Bye repeatedly bullies and manipulates his girlfriend on camera, Kleiven began to question the ethics of giving attention to him.

A period of time passed during which Kleiven and his team neglected to conduct a follow-up interview. Bye took personal offense, and began to send Kleiven threatening messages and images of himself brandishing weapons.

“You son of a whore,” Bye said in one message he sent to Kleiven. “I hope someone comes and shoots your family. Your wife. Your children. Everyone.”

Throughout the documentary, Bye, speaking of a girlfriend, repeats the expression: “You believe in love. I believe in your money.” He also blamed the women he abused for his actions, claiming that his behavior was the result of feeling “neglected” romantically.

“When I have a new lady, it is very exciting at first. But now I feel like she wants to try to destroy me, mentally, bit by bit, because she knows how I react. She knows how tired I get of being rejected, and she focuses on all the negative things about me,” Bye said.

“It’s the stupidest thing she can do. When I don’t get anything in return I get really low, and then I get a little desperate. When I get desperate, I get cynical thoughts, and I start to scam people. Then I start to hate everyone around me because I feel completely abandoned.”

The trial against Bye is ongoing, and a verdict is expected in February.

The Norwegian Correctional Service’s policy on the placement of inmates takes into account a convict’s “gender identity” and legal sex as stated on personal identification documents. It is therefore likely that if convicted, Bye may be placed in a women’s prison to serve his sentence.

Earlier this month, a Norwegian court heard the appeal of two trans-identified men who were convicted last year of the rape of a young girl. One of the men, Damien “Damia Scarlet Rose Nesne” Baar, has also begun the process to change his legal sex marker to ‘female.’

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An asylum seeker has been found guilty of raping a woman in a park.

Sheraz Malik, age 28, was on trial at Birmingham Crown Court accused of raping the woman, who was 18 at the time, in Sutton Lawn park in Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire on June 29 last year.

A jury of five men and seven women took around three hours to return a unanimous guilty verdict on two counts of rape and not guilty on a third.

Malik had previously denied three rape charges and claimed he had consensual sex with the woman.

The 28-year-old, who lived in Sutton-in-Ashfield at the time of the sex attack, was born in Pakistan and lived in Italy, Germany and France before coming to the UK.

A reporting restriction was put in place at Nottingham Crown Court in September last year preventing any mention of the defendant’s immigration status until the trial had concluded.

Malik, who wore a white T-shirt and black Nike jacket in the dock as he listened to proceedings with the assistance of a Pashto interpreter, showed no emotion as the verdicts were returned.

The trial heard that the woman had shared two bottles of vodka with a male friend before meeting Malik and a group of other men she had never seen before, who were sitting nearby in the park, and joining them.

The court was told that her friend left her with the group and asked them to “look after her” while he went to meet someone, but the woman alleged she was raped twice by two different men while alone with them.

Prosecution counsel Nicholas Corsellis KC told the jury that the victim was “alone, drunk and was obviously a vulnerable person” and was allegedly raped by the first man as she relieved herself in an “isolated” part of the park, before she returned to the group and was then taken away to another “secluded” spot and raped by Malik.

Malik, who gave evidence in English during the trial, said he had been playing cricket with a group of other men and smoking cannabis in the park before the attack.

He denied he had slapped her at any point and claimed the woman had told him “I really like you” and “I really enjoyed it”.

During his evidence, Malik was asked why a different name had been used to book him a coach ticket to leave the Nottinghamshire area after the attack.

He said a friend had booked the ticket for him, adding that the Home Office were “giving me £50 for every week”.

In her evidence during the trial, which was given by video link with the screen shielded from the defendant’s view, the woman denied any part of the encounter was consensual.

Asked by Malik’s barrister, Simon Eckersley, why she had gone with the defendant for a walk after she had just allegedly been raped by the first man, she said: “I didn’t have nobody else with me. I was scared, I felt scared of saying no.”

She denied she was “flirting” with Malik and said she gave him her Snapchat details after the attack because she felt uncomfortable.

“After the sex took place, you (and Malik) walked back together. And you said you enjoyed the sex and you really liked him?” Mr Eckersley said.

The woman replied: “I never said that. He’s a liar.”

Judge Simon Ash KC adjourned the case for a mention hearing on February 6 so a date for sentencing could be fixed and ordered a pre-sentence report to be carried out.

Addressing Malik in the dock, who stood next to the interpreter with his hands clasped in front of him and nodded as he was spoken to, the judge said: “You have been convicted of very serious charges and I will need to sentence you in due course.

“The case will next be listed on February 6 to fix a sentence date.

“I have ordered a pre-sentence report to assess the level of dangerousness. You must engage with the probation service when they seek to engage with you.

“You will be remanded into custody at this stage. Would you please go with the officer.”

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