{"id":193922,"date":"2025-10-09T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=193922"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:27:47","slug":"italian-authorities-plan-to-ban-wearing-burqas-and-niqabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/193922\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian authorities plan to ban wearing burqas and niqabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Italy&rsquo;s ruling Brothers of Italy party has said it plans to introduce legislation seeking to ban the burqa and niqab face and body coverings in all public spaces nationwide, calling it a bill against &ldquo;Islamic separatism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/italy-religion-hijab-mosque-muslims-islam-ban-politics-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>, the initiative will be part of a broader bill proposed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The legislation would also regulate mosque funding and restrict the wearing of hijabs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Religious freedom is sacred, but it must be exercised in the open, in full respect of our constitution and the principles of the Italian state,&rdquo; said lawmaker Andrea Delmastro, one of the initiators of the planned bill, in a Facebook post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed bill would include increased penalties for forced marriages and requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Delmastro said Italy had drawn inspiration from France, the first European country to introduce a full burqa ban in 2011. Since then, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland and several other countries in Europe and around the world have imposed full or partial bans on women&rsquo;s clothing related to Islam.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&rsquo;s ruling Brothers of Italy party has said it plans to introduce legislation seeking to ban the burqa and niqab face and body coverings in all public spaces nationwide, calling it a bill against &ldquo;Islamic separatism.&rdquo; According to Politico, the initiative will be part of a broader bill proposed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":193886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193923,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193922\/revisions\/193923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}