| Series Title | The Local.fr |
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| Series Details | 14.08.16 |
| Publication Date | 14/08/2016 |
| Content Type | News |
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The French resort of Cannes won court backing on the 13 August 2016 for its recently imposed ban on the wearing by Muslim women from wearing on the beach the full-body swimsuit known as the 'burkini' (burqini). The court said that the move was legal under French law forbidding people from 'invoking their religious beliefs to skirt common rules regulating relations between public authorities and private individuals'. In the same week there had already been controversy when a ban on a women’s burkini event in Marseille had been imposed raising issues around religious freedom in France. On the 13 August 2016 there was also an incident on the French island of Corsica when a party of bathers of North African origin began objected to photos being taken of them, including women wearing the burkini. On the 17 August 2016 Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister' said that the full-body Muslim swimwear was 'the instrument of a political project, a counter-society based on enslaving women'. As such it was 'not compatible with France’s values'. The State Council (Conseil d’Etat), France's highest administrative court, announced on the 23 August 2016 that it would consider the issue of the ban on the Islamic burkini swimsuit by several French towns on the 25 August 2016 after an appeal to an earlier judgment brought by the Human Rights League (LDH). The LDH and other rights groups believed the ban was a 'serious and illegal attack on numerous fundamental rights' including freedom of religion. The judgment of the State Council was expected on the 26 August 2016. |
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| Source Link | http://www.thelocal.fr/20160814/french-court-upholds-cannes-burqini-ban |
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| Subject Categories | Values and Beliefs |
| Countries / Regions | France |
