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Hind Ahmas (R), speaks her lawyer Gilles Deveres on December 12, 2011 in front of the police tribunal in Paris, after being fined for violating France’s niqab ban. In France, a woman who repeatedly insists on appearing veiled in public can be fined 150 euros and ordered to attend re-education classes.