A decision of the Central Appeals Board, the supreme judiciary in administrative disputes, in a case out 2013. Then the municipality shortened Utrecht a Muslim woman on her social assistance benefit, because she refused her niqab (a face covering veil) to be taken off during work training. The Council argues that this was a justified discount. It is true that a ban on wearing a niqab constitutes an infringement of the right of religious freedom, but in this case the municipality Utrecht there is a valid reason for it. In the current social context, a niqab is an obstacle to finding work.

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