بلجيكا: لجنة برلمانية تسعى لفرض حظر النقاب

تسعى إحدى اللجان البرلمانية البلجيكية لحظر النقاب وحظر الحجاب إذا ما ستر قدرًا من الوجه مجددًا بعد مُضي عام من إثارة قضية حظر النقاب التي أعاقها أزمة عصفت بالحكومة.

وتسعى اللجنة إلى إصدار قانون يعاقب كل مَن ترتدي النقاب أو تستر قدرًا من وجهها في الأماكن العامة بغرامة مالية أو السجن، ويجب أن تحصل مذكرة القانون على موافقة مجلسي النواب والشيوخ والمجلس البلجيكي الأعلى. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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A committee in Belgium's lower chamber of parliament approved Wednesday a law outlawing burqas and other kinds of Islamic face veils - relaunching efforts to introduce the ban nearly one year after they were thwarted by a government crisis.

The law seeks to punish anyone caught in public places with their face completely or partly covered - thus preventing their identification - with fines between 15 to 20 euros (21 to 35 dollars) and/or up to seven days' imprisonment.

The draft law still needs to be approved by the full Chamber of Deputies and by the Senate, Belgium's upper house.

A similar bill won backing from the Chamber last April, but was still waiting to be approved by the Senate when a linguistic squabble between Belgium's French- and Dutch-speaking politicians led to parliament being dissolved, triggering early elections.

The bill was reintroduced by the centre-right French-speaking Mouvement Reformateur (MR), which stressed the need for a national law outlawing burqas after judges in January scrapped a local ban imposed in Etterbek, a district of Brussels, the Belga news agency said.

Like last year, all other parties backed the proposal except for the French- and Dutch-speaking Green parties, which renewed calls for Belgium's top administrative court to review the constitutionality of such a ban before it is introduced.