The Trump administration reportedly is discussing the possibility of granting refugee status to a man who was fined for burning the Quran at a protest outside the Turkish Consulate in London.

According to Fox News, U.K. officials are looking to reinstate his overturned conviction.

State Department officials are weighing if they’ll help 51-year-old Hamit Coskun flee the United Kingdom if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wins its appeal.

We don’t want Islamic blasphemy laws in this country.

My letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions. pic.twitter.com/e3qJVmqusW

— Nick Timothy MP (@NJ_Timothy) February 13, 2026

Fox News has more:

On Feb. 13, 2025, he traveled to the Turkish Consulate in London and set fire to a copy of the Quran while shouting slogans including “Islam is [the] religion of terrorism” and “f— Islam.”

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

Kadri later received a suspended prison sentence after being convicted of assault and having a bladed article in a public place.

Initially charged with harassing the “religious institution of Islam,” Coskun’s case drew intervention from the National Secular Society and the Free Speech Union, who argued prosecutors were effectively reviving blasphemy laws already abolished in 2008.

Coskun was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offense and fined in June 2025.

That October, Coskun’s conviction was overturned when a judge ruled that while burning a Quran was “desperately upsetting and offensive” to many Muslims, the right to free expression “must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.”

The CPS is now seeking to reverse that decision at London’s High Court, with Coskun telling The Telegraph that if the appeal goes against him, he may be forced “to flee” the country.