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A young Sikh in Denmark, who was once paid by authorities there to give lessons on Sikh culture and history to school students in the country, today finds himself fighting the court battles for refusing to part with his Kirpan, a religious symbol sacrosanct for all baptised Sikhs...

The day of the Sept. 11 attacks, Amandeep Singh Sidhu was run off the road by an enraged driver in Northern Virginia. The driver had mistaken Sidhu's turban as a symbol of the faith of those responsible for the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon...

WASHINGTON, MARCH 29. Although India is a "vibrant democracy" with strong Constitutionally guaranteed human rights protections, the poor enforcement of laws, especially at the local levels and the "severely out burdened" court system "weaken the delivery of justice," the State Department has...

Reuters - President Bush signed legislation into law on Friday extending by two years the life of a government panel charged with declassifying CIA documents that detail the spy agency's ties to former Nazis and war criminals...

... Education Minister Francois Fillon said in January that 48 pupils had been banned for wearing religious symbols, including three Sikh boys who refused to ... http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=46044

... Contending factions from Bedford's Sikh temple met at the Justice Center throughout the day Saturday, and although progress was reported, they did not ... http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1108895574259750.xml

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=272&fArticleId=2380939 French secularist law leads to expulsion of 48 students Cape Times (subscription), South Africa - 2 hours ago Most of those barred from attending classes were Muslim girls who refused to take off their headscarves, but...

First students expelled over French law (Agencies) Updated: 2004-10-20 20:55 Two Muslim girls who refused to remove their head scarves in class have been expelled from their schools, and two more risked the same fate Wednesday as officials began taking action against those who defy a new...