Authorities in France are mulling to prohibit women from wearing abaya dresses in schools which is worn by some Muslims, as the education minister cited violation of the country's "strict secular" ...

A man whose daughter was sent home twice allegedly threatened to kill the headteacher for imposing an abaya dress ban at a French school. The father of the high school student is suspected of making ...

The loose-fitting, full-length dresses are sometimes worn by Muslim women. In France, the education minister stressed the religion of school pupils should not be identified at sight. France will ban ...

France's Education Minister Gabriel Attal in Paris on August 24, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP French authorities are to ban the wearing in school premises of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim students, ...

France’s Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Sunday that the abaya, a long, wide-bottomed dress, would be banned in French schools starting this year. “When you enter a classroom,” Attal ...

France will ban children in state-run schools from wearing loose-fitting, full-length robes known as abayas, worn by some Muslim women. This is the first major announcement from new Education Minister ...

Muslim leaders have reacted with anger to a sudden move by the French government to ban the abaya in state schools. The loose-fitting long robe is considered too closely linked with Islam by Gabriel ...

France is set to implement a ban on the wearing of abaya dresses by Muslim women in school settings, according to Education Minister Gabriel Attal. The decision is rooted in France's commitment to ...

Public schools in France have been turning away students for breaking a new national ban on the abaya, a long, robe-like garment often worn by Muslim women, as a rights group filed an appeal against ...

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