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A twentysomething Muslim woman who served as a juror in a London murder trial is being charged with contempt of court because she listened to music on an iPod, hidden beneath her head-covering hijab, while the trial was in progress.(THE WEEK)(Brief article)

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A twentysomething Muslim woman who served as a juror in a London murder trial is being charged with contempt of court because she listened to music on an iPod, hidden beneath her head-covering hijab, while the trial was in progress. The judge in the case had thought he could hear tinny music in the courtroom, but dismissed the sound as a figment of his imagination until another juror sent him a note. What one wants to know, but none of the news ...

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