but as soon as the hijab dropped from her hands, more beads of sweat formed on the spot she had just cleaned. The sun hung overhead like a hot furnace, and the air was hot. It was midday in May ...

The allegations also speak of occasions where facility officials “confiscated Green’s hijab and other religious items and refused to return them.” During a search of her cell, Green found that her ...

The hijab is the head covering that some Muslim women choose to wear in public and the presence of non-related men. CAIR staff attorney Nadia Bayado led a discussion covering Muslim women’s ...

Lengthy prison terms, hefty fines, and travel bans. Those are among the punishments facing women who violate Iran's new hijab law. Approved on November 30, the Hijab And Chastity law has triggered ...

“Although I began praying in sixth grade, it wasn’t until 2020 that I started wearing hijab,” Malika, a 20-year-old university student from Fergana who asked not to use her real ...

And that's because she wears a hijab. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the Geneva, Switzerland-based organization that governs the sport worldwide, in 2017 overturned a global ban ...

“Denial of hijab is robbery,” she said ... While imprisoned, she faced challenges accessing religious materials, including prayer mats and tasbeeh (prayer beads). “Sometimes the librarian would snag ...

After months of campaigning by sporting organizations, France has not reversed its decision to ban French athletes who observe the hijab from participating in the summer Olympics; a move that ...

they denied her access to her hijab head covering and cut off her waist beads, which she used in her religious practice. Griffin alleged that police would not give her the head covering ...

When she did, her waist beads — worn as part of a deeply-held spiritual belief ... The women’s mugshots appeared on NBC News and were made available to multiple agencies. “I wear a hijab myself,” ...

Indian Islamic young woman in hijab sitting on prayer mat praying with beads and reading a Quran holy book during Ramadan month at home. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted ...

Zuleyha Keskin is an associate professor at the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation at Charles Sturt University (CSU) and explains that the word hijab is multifaceted. She says it can be ...