THE GUARDIAN: Businessman who paid women's fines to launch legal challenge against France and Belgium for 'violating individual liberties'
A businessman has said he will take France and Belgium to court after paying the fines of the first two women in Belgium prosecuted for wearing full-face veils in public.
French property dealer Rachid Nekkaz set up a €1m (£870,000) fund to cover fines given to women wearing niqabs and burqas, after the veils were banned in the two countries. The two women had been fined €50 for wearing the niqab in Brussels. » | Reuters in Brussels | Wednesday, August 17, 2011
