France is first finely for veil

12 April 2011 last updated at 13:31 women can be taken to a police station if they refuse, remove their veil French police say they have issued their first penalty for a woman to cover her face with a veil of Islamic.

The woman in a shopping centre in Paris on Monday evening - on the same day ended, the law face coverings in public a ban came into force.

Police said they gave the 27-year-old woman a ticket, pay her a 150-euro (￡ 133) fine or register classes for citizenship within a month requires.

France is the first country in Europe to ban the Muslim face veil in public.

By law, any woman - French or foreign - walking on the street or in a park in France, and enter face hide such as the Niqab veil or burqa can be stopped by the police and given a fine.

Women force people the veil must carry a much larger fine and a prison sentence of up to two years.

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Source: Radio France International

Two veiled women were detained shortly before on Monday - although the police, said it was not because of their veil but to the add an unauthorized protest and to refuse to move on, and they were later released.

Guidelines for the police say that she removed their veil not women on the road - questions should where appropriate, that they should accompany them to a police station where she would are asked to reveal their faces for the identification.

The French Government says the face-covering veil undermines the basic standards required for living in a common society and its institution of an inferior status incompatible with French ideas of equality relegated.

The prohibition does not explicitly mentioned face coverings - the Islamic veil, but is other types - has angered some Muslims and libertarian.

The hijab word comes from the Arabic for veil and is used describe of Muslim women to the headscarf worn. These scarves come in myriad styles and colors. The type in the West is most commonly carried a square scarf, which covered head and neck, but the face clearly. The Niqab is a veil for the face, which clearly leaves the area around the eyes. However it can be worn veil with a separate eye. It is worn with an accompanying headscarf. The burqa is the most the most Gossamer all Islamic veil. It covers the entire face and body, let through only a mesh screen to see. Al-Amira is a two-part veil. There is a close fitting CAP, often from cotton or polyester and an accompanying tubular scarf made. The Shayla is long, rectangular scarf popular in the Gulf region. It is wrapped around the head and hide or fixed on the shoulders. The Khimar is a long, Cape-like veil, which until just on about is the waist. It covers the hair, neck and shoulders completely, but leaves the face clearly. The chador when outside the home, a full-body coat is worn by many Iranian women. It is often a smaller head scarf under accompanied. {Current} of {total} next back

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