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A Sikh rights group asked a UN human rights committee to declare that France violated a student's rights by expelling him for wearing a turban and to recommend repealing the law that led to it. France passed a law in 2004 banning children in state schools from wearing conspicuous religious symbols, including Sikh turbans. Stephen Grosz, a lawyer for United Sikhs, had filed an official communication with a General Assembly committee dealing with human rights about Bikramjit Singh and two other Sikhs who have been unable to renew French identity documents because they refused to remove their turbans for photographs.
