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Police in Iran shut down the Turkish Airlines office in the capital of Tehran, Iranian media reported Tuesday, after female employees there apparently refused to wear the mandatory headscarf, or ...
This is the list of the Muslims in entertainment and the media outside Muslim-majority countries Comedy American comedian Dave Chappelle in 2007. Ahmed Ahmed – standup comedian, actor Humza Arshad – English comedian Dave Chappelle – standup comedian Said Durrah – standup comedian Maz Jobrani – standup comedian, actor Mohammed "Mo" Amer – standup comedian, actor [6] Hasan Minhaj ...
In France and Turkey, the emphasis is on the secular nature of the state, and the symbolic nature of the Islamic dress, and bans apply at state institutions (courts, civil service) and in state-funded education (in France, while the law forbidding the veil applies to students attending publicly funded primary schools and high schools, it does not refer to universities; applicable legislation ...
The headscarf was banned in public institutions because of the 'public clothing regulation' issued after the 1980 coup and began to be implemented in a radical way after the 1997 military memorandum. [9] However, the ban on the headscarf for public personnel was lifted by the democratization package in 2013.
An Iranian underground singer and her band members have been arrested for streaming a live performance on YouTube without wearing a hijab.. Parastoo Ahmadi and her two band members were arrested ...
A Turkish court on Monday ordered the arrest of a woman on charges of inciting hatred and insulting the president after she criticised a ban on social media platform Instagram, broadcaster ...
Turkey lifted the ban on October 30, 2010. [128] In November 2010, a video of the Turkish politician Deniz Baykal caused the site to be blocked again briefly, and the site was threatened with a new shutdown if it did not remove the video. [129] [130] On March 27, 2014, Turkey banned YouTube again.
According to the ban, wearing a burqa or a niqab in public can lead to a fine of 1000 kroner (~US$156) in the case of first time offences, rising to 10,000 kr. (~US$1560) for a fourth offence. [10] [11] Under the ban, police are instructed to order women to remove their veils or to leave the public space. Police officers that fail to obey the ...