British police questioned a 10-year-old Muslim boy in the north of England for mistakenly writing in an English lesson that he lived in a 'terrorist house', instead of writing a 'terraced', the BBC reported on Wednesday.

The boy had intended to write that he lived in a "terraced" house but teachers did not realize he had made an error and reported the boy to the police in accordance with new counter-terrorism rules, which critics say are focused on Muslim communities.

Police interviewed the boy and examined a computer at the family home. The family has demanded an apology from both the police and the school, the BBC said.

"They shouldn't be putting a child through this," the BBC quoted the boy's cousin as saying. To protect the identity of the child, the BBC did not give names in its report.

"He's now scared of writing, using his imagination," the cousin was quoted as saying.

In September 2015, another Muslim schoolboy was interrogated by British child protection services about Daesh terrorist group after he used the term "eco-terrorist" during a discussion about environmental activism in a French class.

The 14-year-old boy used the word during a lesson as part of a discussion at his school in central London about environmental activism, according to the Guardian report.

The student used the term "eco-terrorist" when the class was having a discussion about those who use violence to promote environmentalism and he said he learned the term from an earlier session of the school debating society.

In another incident, father of a Muslim middle school student in the United States said that a teacher asked his daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack.

Abdirizak Aden said the teacher at Shiloh Middle School in Georgia, stopped his 13-year-old daughter, who wears a hijab, and asked if she had a bomb.

She said the comment came as the teacher was telling students to put away their backpacks and school officials don't believe it was made with ill intent.

A similar incident took place when Ahmed Mohamed, whose family is from Sudan, made international headlines when he was handcuffed, arrested and fingerprinted by police on September 16 after a homemade clock he brought to the school was mistaken for a bomb.

The incident took place at a time when rising Islamophobia has exacerbated the debate around religious freedom in the U.S.

His arrest was widely criticized and the charges against him were eventually dropped. Ahmed received messages of support from a number of high-profile figures including President Barack Obama, who he visited at the White House.