Brother of peace laureate Narges Mohammadi says she described how police hit her in face, head and neck with truncheons, ...

In a shocking incident reported by India Today's Shashi Bhushan, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sparked a massive ...

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There has been no contact with Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi since her arrest at the end of last week, ...

A foundation in her name said she was detained in Mashhad, some 420 miles northeast of the capital, Tehran, while attending a ...

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Austria's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a ban on Muslim ...

A German court has ruled that a Muslim woman cannot serve as a judge or prosecutor if she refuses to remove her headscarf during court proceedings, a decision critics call a violation of religious ...

Dutch prosecutors demanded Friday that a Muslim father and his two sons face up to 25 years in prison for allegedly drowning an 18-year-old family member because they believed her "Western" behavior ...

Beyonce usually lets her long, lush hair down as she hits the town but this week the superstar donned a different look. While in Qatar the songbird wore a traditional dark headscarf - either a Hijab ...

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A Headscarf Ban Is Keeping Basketball Players off the Court. A New Bill Could Make It Law in France PARIS (AP) — Salimata Sylla was about to lead her team onto the basketball court, as she had done ...

PARIS (AP) — Salimata Sylla was about to lead her team onto the basketball court, as she had done many times before. On that Sunday morning, she and her teammates had completed a three-hour bus trip ...