HandsoffourHijabs Archives - CAGE

I was stopped for five hours at Heathrow airport with my three year old son simply because I wore a Niqab

‘Saffa’ shares her experience of being stopped at a UK airport with her 3 year old son, separated from her husband and interrogated

Anas2021-03-18T18:03:51+00:00March 31st, 2020|Schedule 7, Survivors|

As a chronically ill Muslim woman, I was taken from a wheelchair to the interrogation room and forced to remove my hijab at a Schedule 7 stop

'Summayah' shares her ordeal with the Schedule 7 powers after being forced to remove her Hijab during a stop at a UK

Anas2020-03-24T18:04:36+00:00March 24th, 2020|Schedule 7, Survivors|

Muslim women unite to demand #HandsOffOurHijabs following revelations of women’s headscarves being forcibly removed in Schedule 7 airport stops

London - A group of Muslim women have taken part in a powerful video display of solidarity to demand police keep their

Anas2020-03-18T17:20:17+00:00March 18th, 2020|Press Release, Schedule 7|

Muslim woman wins legal challenge against the Police after they admitted to violating her Human Rights when she was forced to remove her Hijab during a Schedule 7 stop

London - As revealed today in the Observer, a legal win by a Muslim woman, ‘Asiyah,’ who pursued a judicial review against

Azfar2020-03-15T13:21:19+00:00March 15th, 2020|Press Release, Schedule 7|