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

Kyrgyzstan, a predominantly Muslim nation in Central Asia, has sparked international debate after enacting a controversial ...

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

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 ...

Muslims (the women, particularly ... As she had recently undertaken a project which required wearing a niqab (the full face veil), I wanted to balance things out a bit, so I often wore a baker ...

Lots of Muslim women choose to wear a headscarf called a hijab to cover their hair in public. Some women wear a long loose dress called a jilbab, or a face covering called a niqab. Men sometimes ...

Melburnian Asmaa Shamseddine follows the Muslim faith. She started wearing the niqab as a teenager 11 years ago. "Initially I wore it because my mother and my friends did,” she told SBS Arabic24.

Bill 94 would extend the scope of secularism laws to all personnel in contact with students and force students and teachers to keep their faces uncovered.