Woman in a burkini: What it's like to be forced to leave a French beach

The sight of burkini-wearing women getting kicked off French beaches by police became a point for immense controversy over the European summer.

That incident followed a ban on the swimming garment from a number of the country's beaches in July, with women facing fines if they are caught wearing one. 

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Overturned in one French town, it's puzzling ban for Zeynab Alshelh, a 23-year-old woman from Sydney, Australia, who just appeared on the television program, Sunday Night. 

She laughed off any suggestions that the burkini or veils like the hijab are oppressive, instead talking about her experience of wearing the hijab since she was 10 years old. Read more...

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