A 47-year-old man has been arrested for burning a Quran in Manchester, Britain.

Rasmus Paludan, a far-right politician and leader of the "Hard Course" party, who burned the Koran several times in 2022 and 2023, is on trial on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and insult. Fearing for his safety, he is attending the trial remotely. His whereabouts are kept a secret.

In Sweden, in the summer of 2023, after the Quran was burned several times in protest, more than 15,000 people were sent SMS messages urging them to take revenge on those who set fire to the Quran. The country's government announced that Iran was behind this hacking attack.