Man who burned Quran in London may get US asylum as case draws Trump administration attention

The Trump medication is weighing engagement successful the lawsuit of a protester who was fined for burning a Quran extracurricular the Turkish Consulate successful London, arsenic U.K. prosecutors look to reinstate his overturned conviction, according to reports.

Officials are said to beryllium discussing granting 51-year-old Hamit Coskun exile presumption if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wins its appeal, with a elder U.S. medication authoritative telling The Telegraph the lawsuit is 1 of respective "the medication has made enactment of."

Coskun, of Armenian-Kurdish descent, had initially sought asylum successful the U.K. from Turkey, wherever helium says Islamic extremists "destroyed" his family’s beingness and wherever helium was jailed for protesting Islamist governance.

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Hamit Coskun has said helium whitethorn "flee" to America if the Crown Prosecution Service succeeds successful its High Court challenge. (Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images)

On Feb. 13, 2025, helium traveled to the Turkish Consulate successful London and acceptable occurrence to a transcript of the Quran portion shouting slogans including "Islam is [the] religion of terrorism" and "f--- Islam."

There helium was attacked by Moussa Kadri, a passerby who chased him with a knife, kicked him and spat connected him.

Kadri aboriginal received a suspended situation condemnation aft being convicted of battle and having a bladed nonfiction successful a nationalist place.

Initially charged with harassing the "religious instauration of Islam," Coskun’s lawsuit drew involution from the National Secular Society and the Free Speech Union, who argued prosecutors were efficaciously reviving blasphemy laws already abolished successful 2008.

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Coskun was convicted of a religiously aggravated nationalist bid discourtesy and fined successful June 2025.

That October, Coskun’s condemnation was overturned erstwhile a justice ruled that portion burning a Quran was "desperately upsetting and offensive" to galore Muslims, the close to escaped look "must see the close to explicit views that offend, daze oregon disturb."

The CPS is present seeking to reverse that determination astatine London's High Court, with Coskun telling The Telegraph that if the entreaty goes against him, helium whitethorn beryllium forced "to flee" the country.

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At the 2025 Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance said "in Britain and crossed Europe, escaped speech, I fear, is successful retreat." (Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)

"For me, arsenic the unfortunate of Islamic terrorism, I cannot stay silent. I whitethorn beryllium forced to fly the UK and determination to the USA, wherever President Trump has stood for escaped code and against Islamic extremism," helium told the outlet.

"If I person to bash so, then, to me, the UK volition person efficaciously fallen to Islamism and the code codes that it wishes to enforce connected the non-Muslim world," helium added.

President Donald Trump and the U.S. medication person already criticized the U.K. and European governments implicit accrued restrictions connected expression.

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In 2025, Trump slammed the U.K.'s laws astir online speech, saying "strange things are happening" determination and that it was "not a bully thing."

At the Munich Security Conference successful 2025, Vice President JD Vance besides said, "In Britain and crossed Europe, escaped speech, I fear, is successful retreat."

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