NZZ ONLINE: Nachdem in Belgien das Burka-Verbot vom Parlament beschlossen wurde, sind auch Details des geplanten französischen Gesetzes bekannt geworden. Demnach soll es vor allem harte Strafen für Männer geben, welche ihre Frauen zum Tragen des Schleiers zwingen.
Das in Frankreich geplante Verbot von muslimischen Ganzkörperschleiern soll mit harten Strafandrohungen kombiniert werden. Männer, die Frauen zum Tragen von Burka oder Niqab zwingen, müssen bis zu ein Jahr Haft und eine Geldstrafe von 15'000 Euro fürchten.
Frauen drohen beim Tragen eines Ganzkörperschleiers gemäss einem Gesetzesentwurf bis zu 150 Euro Strafe. Zusätzlich oder alternativ ist die Verpflichtung zu einem «staatsbürgerlichem Praktikum» angedacht. Bei ihm soll den Frauen vermittelt werden, warum in Frankreich das Verhüllen des Gesichts nicht erwünscht ist. >>> sda/afp | Freitag, 30. April 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Anyone who forced a woman to wear a burka would face a fine of €15,000 (£13,000), according to leaked extracts of a proposed French law banning the face-covering Islamic veil.
While women caught wearing a burka or niqab would face a €150 penalty, President Nicolas Sarkozy would fine those making others wear them one hundred times that amount, and would sentence them to one year in prison.
"No-one may wear in public places clothes that are aimed at hiding the face," says the text of a new law that is to be presented to parliament in July, according to a copy seen by Le Figaro.
The law would create a new offence of "incitement to cover the face for reasons of gender," the centre-Right daily newspaper reported.
The extracts cited did not say whether the law would contain exemptions for people covering up their faces for popular non-religious purposes such as skiing, nor how these exceptions would be defined.
Legislators decided to impose a much smaller fine on women caught wearing the veil in public "because these women are often victims," one of the authors of the law told Le Figaro on condition of anonymity.
Women caught wearing the full veil could choose to attend a "citizenship course" instead of paying the fine, the paper said. >>> | Friday, April 30, 2010
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