For the first time in Danish legal history, a woman has given evidence in a courtroom wearing a niqab, reports TV2 News.
.... Spokespeople for the government’s Liberal party and their allies the Danish People’s Party both said it was problematic that witness’s faces were not visible during a hearing. Nasar Khader, integration spokesman for the government’s Conservative Party which recently proposed a ban on burqas, stood by the party line and said courtrooms should be free of burqas and niqabs. [The Copenhagen Post] Read more
