NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Female Muslim police officers in Newark, New Jersey will now be able to wear the traditional head covering known as "hijab" as part of their uniforms. The change comes after an ...

The Suffolk County Police Department violated the First Amendment religious rights of an East Setauket woman by forcing her to remove her hijab, a headscarf worn by some Muslim women, and other ...

I have been wearing the hijab (head covering) for the last five years. Many people have questioned my hijab and expressed their own opinions about it. Just recently, a friend of mine asked me a ...

Have you ever seen a Muslim woman wearing a head covering and wondered what it was? Or, more important, why she was wearing it? Did you know there’s even a day that recognizes women who wear it and ...

Human rights advocates say hijab bans in sports “need to go” as they “deny a space for women themselves”. France banned its athletes from using the Muslim head covering when they competed in last year ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Davidson County sheriff provided a declaration in a federal lawsuit about his department's policy surrounding arrestees who wear religious head coverings. Layla Soliz, who ...

NEW YORK — One evening in January 2017, after she had been detained for hours in a police holding cell in Manhattan, repeatedly told to remove a head scarf that is part of her Muslim faith and begun ...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- A victory for religious freedoms in Santa Clara County. Last October, Asia Aden was booked into the Main Jail and forced to remove her hijab while in custody until ...

Debates around the hijab in India have intensified legal and social tensions, but confusion between the hijab, burqa, and ...

Settlement terms have been reached in a federal lawsuit against the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office concerning a Muslim woman whose head scarf was removed while she was in custody, officials announced ...