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Abu Hamza bullied in prison, says wife Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:43am BST 29/07/2007 The wife of Abu Hamza, the jailed Muslim cleric, has complained about her husband's treatment in a high-security London prison. Abu Hamza's left arm has undergone further amputation Hamza, 49, dubbed the "preacher of hate", is serving seven years for inciting the murder of non-Muslims. In a letter to a London-based Islamic organisation, Nagat Mostafa, 46, said her husband claimed to be the victim of racist bullying and Islamophobia in Belmarsh jail. Her letter to al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies was...

BARABOO, Wis. - The teen accused of gunning down the Weston school principal last September told his grandmother afterward that "something snapped" in his head, she testified. Irene Hainstock took the stand Tuesday at a hearing on whether Eric Hainstock, who turned 16 last week, should be prosecuted in juvenile court instead of adult court, where he is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Principal John Klang. The charge carries a mandatory life prison term. If prosecuted as a juvenile, he could be incarcerated only until the age of 25, his lawyers have said. According to prosecutors,...

Aug. 12, 2005 — A federal jury has ordered a Kansas school district to pay $250,000 to a former student tormented by school bullies. "That's five years of my life that I had to live — just depressed, angry, scared," said the boy, Dylan Theno, 18, of Tonganoxie, Kan. "I can never get that back." Theno won the award Thursday after his family sued the Tonganoxie School District, claiming Theno had suffered years of bullying, and that school officials didn't attempt to stop the harassment.

One glance at 15-year-old Matthew Ridley of Wiltshire, England, and you might think he'd be likely to intimidate fellow classmates. Ironically, the 6-foot-7-inch, 250-pound rugby player has had to withdraw from classes at the Kingsdown Secondary School due to incessant bullying from others. Ridley is now going public with his saga, saying the verbal and physical abuse went on for three years. "Older lads used to come up and push me and try to start fights with me," Ridley told the Press Association of Britain. "They used to do it to make out like they were hard and bigger and...

Bullied boy brain-damaged after suicide attempt SCHOOL DISTRICT: Deal is reached with family of gifted Central Middle School student. By KATIE PESZNECKER Anchorage Daily News (Published: February 8, 2004) The Anchorage School District has settled out of court with a family that said their 14-year-old son tried to kill himself and was left permanently brain-damaged because of relentless bullying that school staffers knew about but didn't stop. School District officials and the family's attorney have declined to disclose any details of the settlement, including the amount of money being paid. The lawyer, Dennis Maloney, said the case is so outrageous...

Miss America 2003, Erika Harold, yesterday said pageant officials have ordered her not to talk publicly about sexual abstinence, a cause she has advocated to teenage girls in Illinois. Top Stories      "Quite frankly, and I'm not going to be specific, there are pressures from some sides to not promote [abstinence]," the 22-year-old woman from Urbana, Ill., told The Washington Times.      In her first visit to Washington since winning the crown Sept. 21, Miss Harold resisted efforts by Miss America officials to silence her pro-chastity opinions.       "I will not be bullied," Miss Harold said yesterday at the National Press Club,...