Post by desi113 on May 15, 2009 10:35:13 GMT
UK College Allows Sikh Students to Sit Exams Wearing Kirpan, After Initially Barring them
"The college has given us assurances and we are hopeful for a speedy and amicable resolution to ensure that no further injustice is done to the 3 students who were initially told they would be barred from sitting their exams if they wore their kirpan, their article of faith": Mejindarpal Kaur, UNITED SIKHS legal director.
Leicester, UK: A sixth-form college today said they will allow Sikh students to wear their kirpan, a Sikh article faith, after a 16 year old Sikh girl was stopped two days ago from taking her AS level exams (pre-university) because she wore a kirpan. This ban had also affected two other initiated Sikhs who were also told that they could not sit for their A level exams on Friday. The ban reversal came after the UNITED SIKHS legal team and the Leicester and Nottingham Sikh community leaders worked around the clock with the college to resolve the problem.
Parminder Kaur, 16, who was initiated as an Amritdhari Sikh last month and is mandated to wear her kirpan at all times, was in shock when she telephoned UNITED SIKHS on Tuesday to say that she has been asked to leave the exam hall at the Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, because she wore a kirpan.
FULL ARTICLE HERE-
www.emgonline.co.uk/news.php?news=5080
this is gr8t news, also i used 2 attend this college ;D and so did a few members on this board
"The college has given us assurances and we are hopeful for a speedy and amicable resolution to ensure that no further injustice is done to the 3 students who were initially told they would be barred from sitting their exams if they wore their kirpan, their article of faith": Mejindarpal Kaur, UNITED SIKHS legal director.
Leicester, UK: A sixth-form college today said they will allow Sikh students to wear their kirpan, a Sikh article faith, after a 16 year old Sikh girl was stopped two days ago from taking her AS level exams (pre-university) because she wore a kirpan. This ban had also affected two other initiated Sikhs who were also told that they could not sit for their A level exams on Friday. The ban reversal came after the UNITED SIKHS legal team and the Leicester and Nottingham Sikh community leaders worked around the clock with the college to resolve the problem.
Parminder Kaur, 16, who was initiated as an Amritdhari Sikh last month and is mandated to wear her kirpan at all times, was in shock when she telephoned UNITED SIKHS on Tuesday to say that she has been asked to leave the exam hall at the Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, because she wore a kirpan.
FULL ARTICLE HERE-
www.emgonline.co.uk/news.php?news=5080
this is gr8t news, also i used 2 attend this college ;D and so did a few members on this board
