{"id":12339,"date":"2025-07-02T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:04:11","slug":"new-law-in-kazakhstan-restricts-public-wearing-of-face-veils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12339","title":{"rendered":"New law in Kazakhstan restricts public wearing of face veils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law prohibiting individuals from wearing clothing in public places that covers their faces, joining a trend in several Central Asian countries to restrict forms of Islamic dress.<\/p>\n<p>The text of the law says clothing that &#8220;interferes with facial recognition&#8221; will be banned in public, with exemptions for medical purposes, in adverse weather conditions and at sporting and cultural events.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, one in a series of wider amendments signed into law on Monday, does not explicitly mention religion or types of religious dress.<\/p>\n<p>Tokayev has previously praised the legislation as an opportunity to celebrate ethnic identity in Kazakhstan, a majority-Muslim country and former Soviet republic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than wearing face-concealing black robes, it&#8217;s much better to wear clothes in the national style,&#8221; he was quoted by Kazakh media as saying earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Kyrgyz body backs ban on niqab<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our national clothes vividly emphasise our ethnic identity, so we need to popularise them comprehensively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other Central Asian countries have introduced similar laws in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Kyrgyzstan have conducted street patrols to enforce their ban on the Islamic niqab face veil, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n<p>In Uzbekistan, violating the niqab statute carries a fine of over $250. Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon signed a ban on wearing clothing in public that is &#8220;alien to national culture.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law prohibiting individuals from wearing clothing in public places that covers their faces, joining a trend in several Central Asian countries to restrict forms of Islamic dress. The text of the law says clothing that &#8220;interferes with facial recognition&#8221; will be banned in public, with exemptions for medical purposes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}