Canada Hate Crime

12 Aug

Indian Couple Harassed in Racially Motivated Attack at Canadian Mall; Teen Arrested

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Peterborough, Canada (Rajeev Sharma): An Indian couple faced racial abuse and death threats from a group of teenagers in the parking lot of Lansdowne Place Mall, in what police have classified as a racially motivated incident. The confrontation on July 29 began when the couple confronted the youths over damage to their vehicle.Video of the encounter, now viral on social media, shows three teenagers in a pickup truck blocking the couple’s car while hurling profanities, racial slurs, and obscene taunts. Insults such as “big nose” and “you fing immigrant” were shouted, with one teen allegedly threatening, “Do you want me…

06 Apr

Indian National Dharmesh Kathireeya Killed in Suspected Hate Crime in Canada

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Ottawa, April 6, 2025 — A 27-year-old Indian national, Dharmesh Kathireeya, was fatally stabbed in what is being investigated as a suspected hate crime in Rockland, Ontario, a township near Canada’s capital. Kathireeya, originally from Bhavnagar district in Gujarat, had moved to Canada in 2019 as an international student and was currently working on a permit.The incident occurred Friday afternoon when Kathireeya was exiting a shared laundry room in his residential building. Witnesses said a white male neighbor in his 60s, who had previously hurled racial and anti-Indian slurs at Kathireeya and his wife, attacked him with a knife in…