Under a Scarf, a Turkish Lawyer Fighting to Wear It
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Fatma Benli has been a central, if reluctant, participant in the fight in Turkey over whether covered women should be allowed to go to college.
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Lawyers today tried to block moves to unveil more of the supposed financial backers of the alleged coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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A writer went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting the founder of modern Turkey in a biography about the revered late leader's wife, amid growing calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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The accused terrorist's lawyers hope to use a competency hearing to show alleged mistreatment.
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A lawyer for best-selling novelist Orhan   Pamuk chided Turkey's justice minister on Friday for suggesting   his client was to blame for the controversy surrounding an   article of the penal code blasted by the EU.
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A Chinese researcher for the New York  Times who was sentenced to three years jail for fraud will  contest the conviction after having beat a separate charge of  illegally leaking state secrets, his lawyer said on Monday.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - She may be a model of Islamic modesty beneath her headscarf, but Nilofar has no time for religious political students who would dictate how she dresses, who she talks to, and what she can and can't study.
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Mayada Chazi does not think of herself as particularly religious. She's more interested in talking about boys, reading English novels, or dreaming of visiting New York. But she has taken to wearing the head scarf of a devout Muslim woman.
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The row over a proposal to outlaw adultery in Turkey has shone the spotlight on the state of women's rights in the Muslim country.
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An iconoclastic law student is sentenced to prison and shudders go through the Middle East blogosphere
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Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for lifting a ban on headscarves at state universities.
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The case offered a counterpoint to a broader discussion concerning Muslim women wearing the full-face veil.
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One of the nationâs best-known plaintiffâs lawyers, Richard Scruggs, is ensnared in legal drama involving federal conspiracy and bribery charges.
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Abdullah Gul, a religious man in the secular realm of Turkish politics, hopes to persuade the establishment that it has nothing to fear from his candidacy.
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For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect.
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Lawyers for a British alleged mercenary, who Equatorial Guinea wants to extradite, say he could face torture.
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Feisty New York lawyer Lynne Stewart  is being prosecuted on hyped-up terror charges to destroy her  career of defending unpopular clients including a militant  Muslim cleric convicted of plotting to bomb U.S. targets, her  attorney argued on Wednesday.