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Muslim Women Win $180K After they Were Forced to Remove Hijabs for Mugshot

Published by:  Gateway Pundit

By:  Jim Hoft


Three Muslim women won $180,000 for their suffering after they were arrested and forced to remove their hijabs for their mugshots.

One of the women, Mervat Soliman, 53, was arrested after a tussle with mother-daughter neighbors over a parking spot near her Glendale home in January 2015.

The Muslim women said they felt exposed and violated after they were forced to remove their hijabs for mugshots.
FOX News reported:

New York City will have to pay out $180,000 to three Muslim women after forcing them to take off their hijabs for mugshots.

Three lawsuits were settled Monday in Brooklyn federal court stemming from the NYPD policy of photographing people wearing religious head coverings, the New York Daily News reported. The three women settled for $60,000 each. […]

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