A Muslim-majority country has banned women from wearing niqabs as they claim they could hide “attackers in disguise" and are ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan are banned from wearing niqabs as the country claims they could be “attackers in disguise”. The Muslim ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will be fined for wearing a full-body niqab under a new plan that is supported by the country's official Muslim governing body. The authority says the garments could hide ...

In today's realities, it is possible that, under the guise of our sisters wearing the niqab, troublemakers dressed in women's clothing will threaten public safety. Therefore, it is important to ...

CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- There's more to wearing the "niqab" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women -- than meets the eye. A recent declaration by a leading ...

The woman who took the case said she chose to wear the niqab as a matter of religious freedom, as a devout Muslim The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the ...

Last week, legislation came into effect in France making it illegal for Muslim women to publicly wear the niqab âÄî a piece of cloth worn on the face thatâÄôs sometimes referred to as a burka. This ...

Wearing niqab may obstruct driver’s vision and concentration, interior ministry says Officials highlighted a key security concern: The difficulty in identifying drivers through surveillance ...

The Quebec government is putting forward a bill that would extend the province's ban on the wearing of religious symbols to ...

Considering personal freedom and privacy, the authorities of Dhaka University yesterday decided that female students wearing the niqab or the hijab will be identified at examination centres by ...