France Lifts Travel Ban on Muslim Teenager

France Lifts Travel Ban on Muslim Teenager

A 19-year-old Muslim woman recently won a court battle to have a travel ban overturned. The woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, was raised Catholic but converted to Salafist Islam two years ago. The travel ban was imposed because the woman expressed interest in...
Egypt Using Travel Bans to Control Critics

Egypt Using Travel Bans to Control Critics

The right to travel, or more broadly, the right to freedom of movement, is considered a basic human right by the United Nations. The thinking goes that no government has the right to prevent people from being able to move, whether it is to migrate looking for better...