Some landlords in England are apparently advertising «Muslim-only» apartments online, according to a local media report.

An investigation by The Telegraph found that alleged listings posted in London on Facebook, Gumtree and Telegram feature phrases such as «only for Muslims,» «for 2 Muslim boys or 2 Muslim girls,» and «Muslims preferred.»

Other ads appeal to Punjabi and Gujarati speakers, while some job vacancies on the platforms are advertised for men only.

Some listings specify «Hindu only,» in addition to posts that likely use religious subtext by stating: «The house should be alcohol and smoke-free.»

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On Facebook, a company called Roshan Properties posted dozens of listings stating «prefer Muslim boy,» «one double room is available for Muslims,» and «suitable for Punjabi boy.»

The ads run afoul of Britain’s Equality Act 2010, which prohibits discrimination based on religion or belief, race and other protected characteristics.

«These adverts are disgusting and anti-British. It goes without saying that there would be a national outrage if the tables were turned,» Robert Jenrick, Reform UK’s economic spokesman, told The Telegraph. «All forms of racism are unacceptable, and no religious group should get a special exemption to discriminate in this way.»

Houses and properties line Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, London, U.K. Some landlords in the city are illegally advertising for «Muslim only» tenants across the city, an investigation by The Telegraph has found. (Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images)

One landlord told The Telegraph to «go away» when asked about an ad for a «Muslims only» room for $1,150, and whether it was available to renters of other faiths.

A spokesperson for Gumtree told the newspaper that the company has clear policies in place that prohibit unlawful discrimination.

On Facebook, a company called Roshan Properties posted dozens of listings stating «prefer Muslim boy,» (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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«We take reports of inappropriate listings very seriously,» the spokesperson said. «The ads referenced appear to relate to private rooms within shared homes, where existing occupants may express preferences about who they live with. This is different from renting out an entire property, which is subject to stricter rules under the Equality Act.»

A Supreme Court leak is giving liberals new ammunition in their long-running criticism of the emergency docket after recently published internal memos showed how the high court fast-tracks major cases, a process that critics say has served to advance key parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda in his second term.

«The liberals are salivating over this. They’re very happy because it reinforces their narrative,» South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman told Fox News Digital.

The memos, published Saturday by the New York Times, offered a rare look at how Chief Justice John Roberts pressed the court in 2016 to quickly block President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan. But the immediate concern now is not about what the documents revealed about the Supreme Court’s emergency docket but rather the leak itself, according to experts, who said it was a deliberate attempt to damage the court’s credibility.

«The bigger issue is people are leaking stuff to try to hurt the court,» Blackman said. «That’s the bigger story. This was done to try to make the court look bad. Roberts, I think, doesn’t come out looking very good in this one. … I think it’s designed to hurt the chief in particular.»

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The leaked internal memos appeared centered on the 5-4 decision along ideological lines in February 2016 to block Obama’s signature energy plan. The memos, written by and circulated among the justices, showed Roberts urging his colleagues to quickly intervene and halt the plan, a revelation that fueled attacks from the left on the so-called shadow docket.

«The new reporting highlights the role of this rashly issued stay in inaugurating the Supreme Court’s use of unexplained and hastily issued ‘shadow docket’ proceedings to alter major national policies,» Environmental Defense Fund general counsel Vickie Patton said in a statement Monday.

The leak incident has generated several theories in legal circles that a liberal justice or retired liberal justice, or one of their former clerks, passed the 16 pages of memos off to the New York Times to weaken confidence in high-profile emergency docket decisions, which have often favored Trump since he took office. A similar, smaller-scale leak to the same New York Times reporters occurred in 2024.

A ‘deteriorating culture at the court’

Blackman noted the person who gave the decade-old memos to the New York Times could share even more.

«This person probably kept a lot of things and decided to leak this, and there might be even more coming,» Blackman said. «I think this is absolutely partisan, and it’s done in a way to hurt and wound the court and to reaffirm this notion that the shadow docket is an evil, nefarious regime.»

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Former President Barack Obama speaks to supporters during a get out the vote rally at Essex County College gymnasium in Newark, N.J., on Nov. 1. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu)

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley echoed Blackman’s sentiments in an op-ed, saying «the controversy over the use of the shadow docket is immaterial to this story.»

Turley pointed to the Dobbs opinion leak to Politico from 2022, which was, at the time, a stunning violation of the high court’s confidentiality. Turley noted while that breach was an apparent «effort to influence the final opinion,» this latest one is about an old case and therefore «had a purely malicious purpose to embarrass or disrupt the court.»

«The leaks appear to reflect a deteriorating culture at the court,» Turley added.

The Supreme Court’s press office did not respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital about the leaks.

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told Fox News on Monday the memos were «100%» intended to discredit the court. Hawley and his wife, Erin, a lawyer at the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, both previously worked as law clerks for Roberts.

«You can tell from the news article that builds it that way,» Hawley said. «They criticize the court for how they’re managing their docket. They say this is some big conspiracy. The only conspiracy is the multi-year effort funded by somebody to undermine the institution of the court from within, from without. … We need to find out who’s doing this.»

Shadow docket criticism

The emergency docket allows litigants to bypass lengthy court proceedings and seek immediate relief from the Supreme Court if lower courts block them through restraining orders or preliminary injunctions.

Democrats have criticized the Supreme Court for the higher frequency of emergency decisions, which often contain little explanation but have increased because of what legal experts say is a rise in executive actions in lieu of Congress passing laws. In Trump’s second term, the justices have ruled in favor of Trump on emergency decisions most of the time, clearing the way for Trump to fire masses of federal employees, cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts, move forward with aggressive immigration policies and more.

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Last week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, tore into the high court’s majority during a Yale Law School speech for issuing what she said were rushed, «scratch-paper musings» that advance «harmful» policies.

Ketanji Brown Jackson attends the 2026 Recording Academy Honors presented by The Black Music Collective during the 68th Grammy Awards on Jan. 29, 2026, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Upon introducing a bill to «increase transparency» of the emergency docket in December, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said the Supreme Court was losing credibility by not allowing cases to first play out in the lower courts.

«The Roberts Court’s reliance on the Shadow Docket to covertly fast-track one-paragraph decisions on major cases drives tremendous mistrust toward Justices already facing record-low levels of public confidence,» Raskin said at the time.

Roberts the ‘bulldozer’

The Clean Power Plan would have involved the Obama Environmental Protection Agency imposing regulations on coal-powered plants under the Clean Air Act, a move that red states and industry groups implored the Supreme Court to quickly stop in 2016. Roberts, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, wrote, according to the memos, that without the high court stepping in, «both the states and private industry will suffer irreparable harm from a rule that is — in my view — highly unlikely to survive.»

The New York Times described Roberts as acting like a «bulldozer.» Blackman said «it’s very clear» that Roberts stepped in to stop the EPA administrator from ramming through a plan in Obama’s last year in office that could reshape the energy sector with only the «very liberal» D.C. appellate court weighing in.

In another memo, Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, disagreed with Roberts, saying «the unique nature of the relief sought in these applications gives me real pause.»

In a matter of days, the high court issued its brief, unexplained decision along ideological lines to temporarily block Obama’s plan. The move would become a death blow to Obama’s efforts because Democrats would lose the White House later that year.

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Blackman noted that accountability for leaking the private memos, which framed Roberts as spearheading a reckless decision, would be difficult, saying any possible crime would fall outside of statutes of limitations and that, outside of the possibility of attempting to disbar the culprit for an ethics violation, there was no real recourse, especially for conservatives seeking to punish a possible left-leaning leaker.

«If a liberal leaks they’ll get a medal,» Blackman said. «They’ll become a hero. They’ll suffer zero professional consequences. In fact, they’ll probably be better off.»

Una nueva modalidad de estafa está afectando a clientes y empresas del sector turístico en San José, Costa Rica, según alertó la empresa CLS Hospitality Group, que denunció la suplantación de identidad de supuestos ejecutivos de hoteles para concretar reservas fraudulentas y solicitar pagos fuera de los canales oficiales.

De acuerdo con la compañía, los delincuentes se hacen pasar por personal de reconocidos hoteles de la capital, como el Gran Hotel Costa Rica Curio Collection by Hilton, el Hilton Garden Inn San José La Sabana y el Hilton San José La Sabana, con el fin de engañar a clientes interesados en contratar servicios para eventos sociales o corporativos.

La alerta se da en un contexto en el que el sector turismo continúa recuperándose y adaptándose a nuevas dinámicas digitales, lo que también ha abierto espacio para modalidades de fraude más sofisticadas, especialmente a través de plataformas de mensajería y correos electrónicos falsos.

Según explicó Juan Camilo Carvajal, director general de Operaciones de la empresa, los estafadores buscan generar confianza haciéndose pasar por representantes oficiales, para luego solicitar pagos a cuentas personales o medios no autorizados.

La compañía fue enfática en señalar que todos sus procesos de reserva y pago se realizan exclusivamente a través de plataformas institucionales verificadas y dominios oficiales, entre ellos @granhotel.cr, @clsgroupcr.com, @hgilasabana.com y @hiltonlasabana.com.

“Cualquier mensaje que provenga de direcciones diferentes debe considerarse sospechoso”, advirtió Carvajal, quien instó a los usuarios a extremar precauciones antes de realizar transferencias o depósitos.

El mecanismo de fraude, según detalló la empresa, inicia cuando los delincuentes contactan a potenciales clientes que buscan organizar actividades como bodas, fiestas de 15 años u otros eventos empresariales.

En estos casos, los estafadores se presentan como ejecutivos de ventas o coordinadores de eventos de los hoteles, ofreciendo paquetes y cotizaciones aparentemente legítimas, pero con el objetivo de concretar reservas inexistentes.

Adriana Guevara, directora comercial de la compañía, explicó que una vez ganada la confianza del cliente, los delincuentes solicitan depósitos bancarios o pagos adelantados a cuentas que no pertenecen a la empresa.

Este paso es clave en la estafa, ya que los pagos se realizan fuera de los sistemas oficiales, lo que dificulta su rastreo y eventual recuperación.

Ante este panorama, la empresa recomendó a los usuarios confirmar directamente con los hoteles cualquier cotización o comunicación recibida, así como verificar que los canales utilizados correspondan a los medios oficiales.

CLS Hospitality Group insistió en que ninguna de sus operaciones se gestiona a través de cuentas personales, aplicaciones de mensajería no oficiales ni canales informales, por lo que cualquier solicitud de pago en estas condiciones debe generar alerta inmediata.

Entre las principales recomendaciones destacan:

• Verificar siempre el dominio del correo electrónico del remitente.
• Confirmar directamente con el hotel cualquier información recibida.
• Evitar realizar transferencias a cuentas personales.
• Desconfiar de ofertas que presionen por pagos inmediatos.

Además, la empresa recordó que los procesos formales incluyen documentación y confirmaciones a través de sistemas institucionales, lo que permite mayor trazabilidad y seguridad para los clientes.

La compañía indicó que actualmente se encuentra dando seguimiento activo a los casos detectados y reforzando sus protocolos de seguridad para prevenir nuevas situaciones.

Este tipo de estafas no solo afecta a los clientes, sino que también representa un riesgo para la reputación del sector turístico, especialmente en destinos urbanos como San José, donde la oferta hotelera y de eventos es amplia.

En un entorno cada vez más digitalizado, expertos advierten que este tipo de fraudes seguirá evolucionando, por lo que la verificación de fuentes y canales oficiales se convierte en una herramienta clave para evitar caer en engaños.