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‘Burqa ban’: $1000 fine in Switzerland for covering faces?
The Swiss government has submitted a draught bill to the parliament that would impose a $1,000 punishment on anybody who violates the country’s ban on facial coverings. Following the vote in the…
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French senate votes to ban hijab for Muslim girls below 18 yrs
Less than a month after voters in Switzerland supported a ban on burqa and the niqab, the French Senate on March 30th voted to ban the hijab (the headscarf that Muslim women wear)…
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Swiss mull ‘burqa ban’ in vote centering on security, rights
Geneva: At a time when seemingly everyone in Europe is wearing masks to battle COVID-19, the Swiss go to the polls Sunday to vote on a long-laid proposal to ban face-coverings, both the…
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Shiv Sena did not demand burqa ban: Sanjay Raut
Clarifying that demand for burqa-ban made in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana was not that of Sena or its chief Uddhav Thackeray, Shiv-Sena-leader Sanjay Raut said, “The burqa-ban was not the…