If you want to wear a burka ... Austria, Denmark, France and Belgium have banned such veils in all public spaces. Like the Netherlands, Norway also has a partial ban. JTA has documented Jewish ...

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(JTA) — France’s interior minister instituted ... so far blocked individual planned rallies, but some protests were held despite the bans, such as ones held Wednesday night in Nantes, Nîmes ...

In France, once the colonial power in Morocco, wearing the burqa and niqab in public has been illegal since 2011. It is not clear whether the Muslim-majority north African nation is likely to ...

The result of the so-called "burqa ban" places Switzerland on the list of countries like France, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands and Bulgaria that have passed laws regarding face coverings.

France introduced a ban on women wearing the burqa in 2011, or risk a 150 euro fine, resulting in some 1,500 arrests in the past five years. The European Court of Human Rights in 2014 backed the ...