{"id":93159,"date":"2026-08-20T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93159"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:02:30","slug":"portugal-approves-burka-law-with-fines-as-high-as-2-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/portugal-approves-burka-law-with-fines-as-high-as-2-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal approves &#8216;burka law&#8217; with fines as high as \u00a32.5k"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2ayyHf.img?w=590&h=385&m=6&x=355&y=78&s=64&d=64\" alt=\"Women wearing a face veil in Portugal\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Portugal has approved a new face-covering ban, dubbed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2171892\/Spain-verge-burqa-ban-522-fines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u201cburqa law\u201d,<\/a> with those who breach it potentially facing fines of up to \u00a32,500. On Monday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/portugal-approves-burka-law-with-fines-as-high-as-2-5k\/ar-AA2ayevc?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=389486c2c0ee44bfbd8d351ab47dc806&ei=34\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Portugal has approved a new face-covering ban, dubbed the\u00a0\u201cburqa law\u201d, with those who breach it potentially facing fines of up to \u00a32,500&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Burka.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93161,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93159\/revisions\/93161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}