News Updates: France Sikh Turban Issue

[Deep Singh]

French Sikhs Jasvir, right, and Bikramjit Singh pose in the Sikh temple of Bobigny, France, outside Paris, Wednesday Oct. 20, 2004. The boys have been kept out of class since the start of September, in accordance with the law banning all conspicuous religious signs from public schools, which went into effect at the start of the academic year on Sept. 2. In the first court case resulting from the law, Sikh leaders have asked a court to force the school to convene a disciplinary hearing or let the boys into classrooms. A ruling is expected Friday. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

An unidentified Sikh, wearing a head piece instead of a turban, enters his high school in Drancy, outside Paris, early Wednesday Oct. 20, 2004. Some Sikh schoolchildren risk expulsion from their school for wearing their turban. Two Muslim girls who refused to remove their head scarves have been expelled Tuesday in Mulhouse, eastern France, as officials begin taking action against those who defy the new law banning conspicuous religious symbols from public schools. Sign reads: Eugene Delacroix highschool. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

France's Koudrat Singh, spokesman of United Sikh organization, talks outside the Cergy Pontoise courtroom, west

of Paris, Wednesday Oct. 20, 2004. The court examined the case of three Sikh schoolchildren who risk expulsion from their school for wearing their turban. Two Muslim girls who refused to remove their head scarves have been expelled tuesday in Mulhouse, eastern France, as officials begin taking action against those who defy the new law banning conspicuous religious symbols from public schools.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)