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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population. Minister for public security Sarath Weerasekera told a news conference he had signed a paper on Friday for cabinet approval to ban the full face covering worn by some Muslim women on “national security” grounds. “In our early days Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa,” he said. “It is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently. We are definitely going to ban it.” The wearing of the burqa in the majority-Buddhist nation was temporarily banned in 2019 after the bombing of churches and hotels by Islamic militants that killed more than 250. Other countries have enacted burqa bans in recent years as well, including Switzerland, France, and Denmark. RELATED |  While Iranian Women Are Routinely Flogged for Not Wearing the Hijab, UN Rights Office Lamen...

The Revolutionary Guards Quds Force-affiliated Tasnim News Agency reported [This article was originally published on June 8, 2019 ] that the head of the Tehran’s Guidance Prosecutor’s Office, Mohammad Mehdi Haj Mohammadi, has instructed ordinary Iranians to spy on their fellow citizens by taking photos, videos, and gathering other information about people committing what the regime says are “immoral” actions. These immoral actions that the so-called “Guidance Court” channel has asked citizens to report include: • any kind of non-observance of the forced hijab, whether that be refusing to wear it or allowing it to show some hair • any acts that break the norms in automobiles, which is thought to be because many Iranians consider their cars to be private places, where one could remove the hijab for instance, but the regime considers them to be public because people can see inside from a public space • alcohol use • holding mixed gender parties in places such as traditional restaurants, c...