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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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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:34AM
We do not legally recognise the concept of religious execution in the UK, "honour" killings are murders! [bbc.co.uk]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 29 2016, @01:22AM
We do not legally recognise the concept of religious execution in the UK, "honour" killings are murders!
Which I might add, is a long-held tradition [wikipedia.org]:
Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.