Naqab

In a first of its kind ruling, a veiled Muslim woman was barred from serving on a jury in a London court by a judge who wanted her to remove the face cover as it concealed her expressions. The judge, on Monday, said she could not sit on an attempted murder trial because her full face covering (naqab) concealed her expressions, a media report said t...

An Italian parliamentary commission on Tuesday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft, passed by the constitutional affairs commission, would prohibit women from wearing a burqa, naqab or any other garb that covers the face in such circumstances. It would expand a decades-old law that ...

Several women protested in veils in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, denouncing France's new ban on Islamic face veils or naqabs.Two women wearing the naqab, which has just a slit for the eyes, claimed the ban is an affront to their freedom of expression and religion."This is an attack on my freedom of conscience, my freedom of religion, my fr...

In a first of its kind ruling, a veiled Muslim woman was barred from serving on a jury in a London court by a judge who wanted her to remove the face cover as it concealed her expressions. The judge, on Monday, said she could not sit on an attempted murder trial because her full face covering (naqab) concealed her expressions, a media report said t...

An Italian parliamentary commission on Tuesday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft, passed by the constitutional affairs commission, would prohibit women from wearing a burqa, naqab or any other garb that covers the face in such circumstances. It would expand a decades-old law that ...

Several women protested in veils in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, denouncing France's new ban on Islamic face veils or naqabs.Two women wearing the naqab, which has just a slit for the eyes, claimed the ban is an affront to their freedom of expression and religion."This is an attack on my freedom of conscience, my freedom of religion, my fr...