Tag: france

France bans pro-Palestine protests

By MDI on July 19, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Middle East Eye France’s socialist government provoked outrage on Friday by banning protests against Israeli action in Palestine. It is the only government in the western world to enact such a restriction and one of the few in the world to stop public outcries of support for the […]

European Human Rights court upholds burqa ban

By MDI on July 1, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

The Guardian Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France’s burqa ban, accepting Paris’s argument that it encouraged citizens to “live together”. The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place. While it also covers balaclavas and hoods, […]