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Norway hit a hairdresser with a 10,000 kroner (€1,075, $1,200) fine on Monday after she was convicted of discrimination for turning away a Muslim client wearing a headscarf.
Merete Hodne had risked up to six months in prison for religious discrimination for turning Malika Bayan away from her hair salon in Bryne, a small town in southwestern Norway, in October last year.
"The court... has no doubt that the defendant acted intentionally, that she deliberately discriminated against Bayan by expelling her from the salon because she is Muslim," the court ruled.