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 ...

TASHKENT -- Uzbek police outside the capital have forced dozens of practicing Muslims to shave off their beards, a practice that has been criticized by domestic and international rights organization ...

The 10th Circuit considers whether the shaving of a Muslim inmate’s beard was a violation of religion or a bald mistake. FILE - In this June 15, 2018, file photo, the Winston razor and Harry's face ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado will pay $245,000 to a Muslim man who was forced to shave his beard in prison in violation of his religious beliefs, court records show. Tajuddin ...

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 ...

Ashaheed a Muslim, claimed his beard was a core part of his faith. Allegedly, the Colorado Department of Corrections knew about this ever since 1993, when it documented Ashaheed’s faith in his inmate ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A settlement was reached after a lawsuit claimed that a Colorado Department of Corrections sergeant forced a Muslim man to shave his beard against his religious beliefs. In January, ...

ANGREN, Uzbekistan -- Police in Uzbekistan's eastern city of Angren have forced dozens of practicing Muslims to shave off their beards, a practice in the Central Asian nation that has been criticized ...