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BBC News and CNN (disable CSS if page appears blank) report that the Council of State, a French administrative court, has suspended the ban on "burkini" swimsuits enacted in the town of Villeneuve-Loubet. The court has not yet decided whether the ban is legal or not. In the ruling, the court said that the ban "seriously and clearly illegally breached fundamental freedoms." Several other towns have recently enacted similar bans.
The Guardian (safe for work) reported on an incident in Nice in which the ban was enforced: police appeared to make a sunbather remove part of her suit.
previously:
The French Solution - or How I Learned to Laugh More (subtitle: Cannes Bans "Burkinis" Over Suspected Link to Radical Islamism)
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French Court Suspends Swimsuit Ban
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @09:27PM
Real world abuse is more subtle than that. In the UK, we now have laws against coercive behaviour. [independent.co.uk] This is a difficult area since a certain amount of coercion is the glue that holds society and inter-personal relationships together. As to the burka issue, I would imagine the coercion is social peer pressure. That is there is an element of choice but the choice is not if a woman will wear a burka, it is the potential consequences of refusing to do so.
You can look at divorce for further related examples where the threat of being shunned by the wider religious community still exists in Jewish, Muslim [independent.co.uk] and some Irish Catholic communities.