Portuguese President António José Seguro has enacted a measure that largely prohibits individuals from covering up their faces while out in public, a restriction broadly viewed as aimed at Muslim women, according to Muslim women wear, was adopted by the Portuguese parliament last month, according to AFP.
The law bans sporting coverings meant to hide a person's face or block identification in public areas and bans requiring someone to cloak their face due to gender, religion, age or origin, the report states.
"For the president of the republic, the uncovered face constitutes a structuring dimension of social trust, a characteristic of Portuguese society," according to an English translation of a Portuguese-language European democracies," the release added.