Indian actor and activist Chetan Kumar Ahimsa has been arrested in India allegedly for posting a tweet criticizing one of the judges hearing pleas against the ban on hijab in schools.

Anger over ban on hijab in Indian schools is gaining momentum.

Demonstrators have rallied in Jaipur over the hijab ban in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

A decision by the French Senate to ban wearing hijab at sports competitions faces harsh criticism from the country’s Muslim community.

A senior Iranian rights official has called on the Canadian government to revoke a discriminatory law that removed a citizen from her teaching job for wearing a hijab in classroom in the eastern province of Quebec.

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Turkey condemns a top EU court ruling on headscarf ban at the workplace, calling it a "legal cover for discrimination."

Shock has rippled through the Muslim community after the European Union’s Highest Court ruled that businesses can sack Muslim women for wearing the hijab if they work face-to-face with customers or if the wearing of the religious clothing causes workplace conflicts.

Employers can in principle ban staff from wearing hijabs in the workplace, a European Union court ruled Thursday in two cases brought by Muslim women working in Germany.

A new wave of pressure has flooded in from the online world with hashtag campaigns demanding that the French state backs down on the planned Hijab ban for all under 18’s.