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Woman convicted for wearing burqa in France
[DAWN] A French court Wednesday convicted a young woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil in public and threw out her bid to have the country's controversial burqa ban declared unconstitutional.Cassandra Belin, 20, was also convicted for insulting and threatening three coppers at the time of her arrest, which sparked two days of rioting in the town of Trappes, near Gay Paree, in July, 2013. She was given a one-month suspended prison sentence for the clash with the police and a 150-euro ($200) fine for wearing the veil. Her lawyers, who argued that the burqa ban impinges on religious freedom and unfairly target Moslems, had asked for an emergency ruling on the constitutionality of the ban before sentencing. But that request was rejected on the grounds that the Constitutional Council had previously upheld the 2011 law. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-09 |
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