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| Muslim women allowed headscarves |
| By AHN |
| Published: 11/04/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - A Muslim woman has won a lawsuit against California's Orange County for being forced to take off her headscarves in front of a police officer in the county jail in 2005. The county announced Monday that part of the settlement of the suit is payment of $45,000 in damages to Jameelah Medina, 30, of Rialto, and allowing jailed Muslim women to wear their traditional headscarves called hijab. The Orange County office of the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in 2005 on behalf of Medina after she complained that police officers disregarded her plea not to take off her hijab on religious grounds while they process her case in the county jail in 2005. Medina was arrested for using an invalid train pass in Pomona. She was not prosecuted but said she felt exposed without the headscarf during her 12-hour detention. |
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