Tag: Niqab

• Wednesday, July 2nd 2014 - 07:35 UTC

  EU upholds ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil: niqab

  

  The European Court of Human Rights has 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.