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...including the current prime minister, would step down, anti-government protesters occupying Bangkok's two main airports erupted into cheers and waived Thai flags. Red-shirted government supporters, who had gathered outside the court building to try and prevent the proceedings, dismissed the decision as a judicial coup d'etat...
Thaksin was ousted as Prime Minister in a bloodless military coup d'etat in September 2006 by a clique of generals who claimed he was corrupt, dividing the country and had disrespected Thailand's revered monarchy. He spent the next 18 months in self-imposed exile in various countries, while a military-appointed committee investigated and filed charges against him in raft of corruption cases. He has consistently denied all charges against...
...Still, the Conseil d'Etat rejected Faiza M.'s application on the grounds the observance constituted "a radical practice of her religion (and) behavior in society incompatible with the essential values of the French community, notably the principle of equality between the sexes...
...challenged - came in response to Faiza M.'s appeal of an initial rejection of her naturalization application in 2005. The earlier decision faulted her "insufficient assimilation", and cited her form of dress, virtual seclusion, and submission to her husband as justification. In her petition to the Conseil d'Etat, Faiza M. argued the 2005 ruling violated France's constitutional right of freedom of religion by condemning her observance of Islam. The rejection of that appeal is final...
...keeping Islamic headscarves out of classrooms. And each new report of commotion - or even violence - in hospitals when Muslim husbands refuse to allow male doctors to tend to their wives sparks renewed outcry and debate that secular French society is under siege from foreign religious influences. The Conseil d'Etat's ruling may allay some of those fears-but not without generating cries of discrimination among many of France's five million Muslim...