European Court of Human Rights upholds French full veil ban

The European Court of Human Rights has just upheld a ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil - the niqab. A case was brought by a 24-year-old French woman, who argued that the ban on wearing the veil in public violated her freedom of religion and expression. The court ruled that the ban " was not expressly based on the religious connotation of the clothing in question but...

Publié le 02/07/2014 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...