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Fined over swimming classes
GENEVA – OFFICIALS in the Swiss city of Basel have fined five Muslim families for refusing to allow their daughters to attend compulsory swimming classes in school, Swiss news agency ATS reported on Thursday. The parents had refused on ‘religious grounds’ to allow their daughters, all of whom were under 10, to take part in the mixed-gender classes, said Christoph Eymann, the head of city’s …
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