https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A group of Swedish football fans have launched a protest against a new ban on wearing masks at stadiums, exploiting an exception to the ban by wearing niqabs to cover their faces. https://www.thelocal.se/20170403/swedish-football-fans-protest-mask-ban-by-wearing-niqabs Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:06:35 +0200 swedish-football-fans-protest-mask-ban-by-wearing-niqabs Teachers in Swedish schools can, in certain situations, prohibit students from wearing Islamic veils that reveal only their eyes, the country's school's agency has ruled. https://www.thelocal.se/20120111/38452 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:46:00 +0100 38452 Three women wearing head scarves completely shielding their faces were denied entry to a Gothenburg courtroom on Friday during the remand hearing of one of the suspects in the Röda Sten murder plot case. https://www.thelocal.se/20111028/37026 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:30:00 +0200 37026 Banning a student from class for wearing a headscarf is a violation of Sweden’s anti-discrimination laws, the country’s Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen – DO) has ruled. https://www.thelocal.se/20101201/30530 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:55:00 +0100 30530 A student wearing the niqab has begun attending a teacher training course in Stockholm, more than one and a half years after another woman reported a school that would not allow her to wear the headscarf in class. https://www.thelocal.se/20100906/28790 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0200 28790 A Stockholm woman has reported an adult education college in Spånga to the Equality Ombudsman (DO) after being told that she could not wear an Islamic headscarf in class. https://www.thelocal.se/20090212/17528 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:18:00 +0100 17528