{"id":31464,"date":"2019-07-06T11:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T03:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=31464"},"modified":"2019-07-06T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T03:09:19","slug":"tunisia-bans-niqab-in-government-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=31464","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia bans niqab in government offices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TUNIS, July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the niqab Muslim face covering for women in government offices &#8220;for security reasons&#8221;.<br><br>The niqab is a veil worn by Muslim women that covers the whole face apart from the eyes as a sign of modesty and a symbol of religious faith.<br><br>When Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announced he was banning people from wearing the full face veil, called the niqab, in public institutions, he said this was for security reasons.<br><br>While he didn&#8217;t divulge further, the decision follows an attack by a suicide bomber from so-called Daesh group, who blew himself up in the capital Tunis on Tuesday.<br><br>Witnesses said the suicide bomber was disguised in a niqab, but the interior ministry denied this.<br><br>Tunisia has been battling militant groups since an uprising overthrew President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the niqab Muslim face covering for women in government offices &#8220;for security reasons&#8221;. The niqab is a veil worn by Muslim women that covers the whole face apart from the eyes as a sign of modesty and a symbol of religious faith. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}