“Terror Survivors like myself are being consistently let down and treated with disregard by the government.” Our CEO Sajda Mughal has spoken out about the lack of NHS mental health support for survivors of terror attacks in The Independent. As a co-founder of the network Survivors Against Terror, this is an issue close to Sajda’s …
JAN Trust supports trans equality
JAN Trust has appeared in the Metro, proud to be one of the many organisations supporting the fight for trans equality. We have appeared alongside Amnesty UK and Stonewall. We believe that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity & respect, free from hatred and hostility and are happy to support equality in the UK. …
Sajda Mughal in Metro – “A terrorist tried to kill me but I do not want the death penalty for extremists”
JAN Trust Director, 7/7 Survivor and Counter-Extremism expert Sajda Mughal OBE has spoken to The Metro about the ISIS ‘The Beatles’, the death penalty, the Prevent strategy and what needs to happen. Sajda Mughal survived one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in the UK and has dedicated her life to preventing extremism. Even though terrorists tried …
Survived 7/7, worked with Prevent, approach to counter terrorism is wrong
“I chose to dedicate my life to countering terrorism in my own community as a direct result of surviving the 7/7 London bombings. I had little idea at the time what an arduous journey I was about to embark on.” JAN Trust Director, 7/7 Survivor and Counter-Extremism expert Sajda Mughal OBE has spoken to The …
CEO rebukes MP Boris Johnson for discriminatory comments
“This inflammatory language will in fact motivate and fuel hate crimes” CEO Sajda Mughal has spoken out against MP Boris Johnson’s comments, who stated that Muslim women who wear the burqa look like “letterboxes” and bank robbers. Read about what Sajda has to say here.
7/7 survivor Sajda Mughal: Prevent anti terror plan is ‘failing’
JAN Trust CEO, Sajda Mughal OBE has spoken out over concern she has about the current counter-terror strategy, Prevent. Mughal has worked with the programme for over a decade. She is urging the government to take urgent action to commission an independent review of Prevent, in order to “establish its effectiveness and the benchmarks for …
Sajda Mughal comments in Arab News
Our CEO Sajda Mughal has appeared in Arab News. She speaks about the issues that some wives were married through an Islamic marriage have gone through. Read more here.
Welcome to JAN Trust Romesh!
JAN Trust is delighted to welcome on board new ambassador comedian Romesh Ranganathan. The last few years have been incredible for Romesh with two series of his BAFTA and RTS Nominated series Asian Provocateur receiving critical acclaim. In 2016 Romesh embarked on his debut solo tour selling over 100,000 tickets and being awarded the Ents24 …
Sajda Mughal appears on SBS News
“When you go through the experience of surviving terrorism or losing a loved one to terrorism, it scars you for life.” Our CEO Sajda Mughal has appeared on SBS News to speak about the network that she has co-founded, Survivors Against Terror. Read more here.
Sajda Mughal OBE appears on Victoria Derbyshire to talk about the Parsons Green attack
Sajda Mughal OBE has appeared on Victoria Derbyshire to speak about how online radicalisation can be prevented. On Friday the 23th of March 2018, just before Ahmed Hassan was jailed for life for a terrorist attack in London, counter-extremism expert and JAN Trust’s CEO Sajda Mughal appeared on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show. She spoke …