A Muslim police officer alleges he was harassed and reprimanded for his facial hair despite having a religious accommodation from the Jersey City Police Department allowing him to grow a beard, ...

Timothy Hurst, The Denver Gazette file The Alfred A. Arraj federal courthouse in Denver A federal judge agreed on Thursday that a jury would decide whether a corrections officer violated the ...

A Muslim prisoner in Beeville who would like to grow a beard is taking his grievances to court, claiming the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s facial hair ban violates his First Amendment rights.

Social activist and community advocate Tajuddin Ashaheed is a free man today. But the devout Muslim is continuing a fight that began when he was incarcerated in the Colorado Department of Corrections ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - An Arkansas prison unfairly burdens a Muslim inmate's religious exercise by not letting him grow a short beard, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. Gregory Houston Holt aka Abdul Maalik ...

DENVER — A Colorado man who said he was forced to shave his beard while incarcerated for a parole violation has won a $245,000 settlement after a decade-long legal battle, resolving a First Amendment ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Facial hair is trendy worldwide these days, but in Jerusalem beards have never gone out of style, projecting religious mysticism, nationalism and ideals of masculinity. For men of all ...

A federal judge agreed on Thursday that a jury would decide whether a corrections officer violated the constitutional rights of an incarcerated Muslim man by requiring him to shave his beard upon ...