Australian Muslim woman in ‘burkini’ made to leave French beach: media
- 19-Sep-2016
SYDNEY: An Australian Muslim woman who wore a burkini to a French beach said she was asked to leave despite a ban on the controversial full-bodied swimsuit recently being overturned.
France’s secular laws can accommodate Islam: Hollande
- 08-Sep-2016
PARIS, FRANCE: President Francois Hollande insisted on Thursday that France's strict laws separating church and state do not prevent the country's large Muslim minority from practising their religion.
French city Nice suspends burkini ban after defiance
- 01-Sep-2016
NICE: A Nice court finally suspended the burkini ban on Thursday after authorities in the French Riviera resort had defied a ruling by the country's highest administrative court.
France seeks new chapter in Muslim relations
- 30-Aug-2016
PARIS: France's government sought Monday to open a new chapter in relations with the country's Muslims following a summer scarred by jihadist attacks and a ban on burkinis that ratcheted up communal tensions.
‘All Muslims are terrorists’ restaurateur tells Muslim women in France
- 29-Aug-2016
BOBIGNY: Two veiled women who were told by a French restaurateur that all Muslims are terrorists then forced to leave the restaurant complained to authorities Monday, an anti-Islamophobia campaign group said.
French resorts defiant as top court suspends burkini ban
- 27-Aug-2016
MARSEILLE, FRANCE: French resorts were defiant after a ban on the burkini in a Riviera town was overturned, vowing to keep the restrictions in place and continue imposing fines on women who wear the full-body swimsuit.
Top French court suspends burkini ban
- 26-Aug-2016
PARIS: France's highest administrative court on Friday suspended a controversial ban on the burkini by a French Riviera town after it was challenged by rights groups.
France’s highest court mulls bid to reverse burkini ban
- 25-Aug-2016
PARIS: France's highest administrative court will examine a request to overturn a ban on the burkini after photographs of police surrounding a woman on a beach fuelled the controversy over the Islamic swimsuit.
Woman forced to remove clothes after burkini ban in France
- 24-Aug-2016
NICE: An angry debate over a ban on burkinis in France was further stoked as images of a veiled woman surrounded by police on a beach in Nice went viral.
Police in Cannes arrest 10 Muslim women for wearing banned burkinis
- 18-Aug-2016
CANNES, PARIS: Ten Muslim women wearing burkinis to the beach have been apprehended by police in the southern French city of Cannes in the three weeks since it imposed a temporary ban on the full body swimsuit, a local official said.