{"id":40016,"date":"2019-07-07T23:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T23:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40016"},"modified":"2019-07-07T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T23:23:27","slug":"tunisia-bans-full-face-veil-in-public-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40016","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia bans full-face veil in public institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/30\/world\/tunisia-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tunisia<\/a> has banned people from wearing the niqab &#8212; a full-face veil &#8212; in public institutions, citing security concerns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Prime Minister Youssef Chahed signed a government order Friday that prohibits anyone wearing a niqab, which covers everything but the eyes, from accessing public offices, according to official news agency<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tap.info.tn\/en\/Portal-Top-News-EN\/11614584-niqab-banned-in\" target=\"_blank\"> TAP.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The rule, which takes effect immediately, applies to both staff and visitors. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Tunisia has banned people from wearing the niqab &#8212; a full-face veil &#8212; in public institutions, citing security concerns.Prime Minister Youssef Chahed signed a government order Friday that prohibits anyone wearing a niqab, which covers everything but the eyes, from accessing public offices, according to official news agency TAP.The rule, which takes effect immediately, applies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}