Ontario judge rules woman must remove veil to testify

[JURIST] A Toronto judge ruled Wednesday that a Muslim woman must remove her niqab [BBC backgrounder] while testifying in a sexual abuse case. The woman, known as NS, has been fighting for years to be allowed to wear her niqab while testifying and took her case to the Supreme Court of Canada [official website], which ruled in December that trial judge may make a case-by-case determination [JURIST report]. Justice Norris Weisman weighed NS's religious beliefs with the accused's right to...

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