An attempt by a British legal team to reverse France's burka ban was today rejected by the European Court of Human Rights.

In a test case which will have widespread implications in other countries, judges said that the measure aimed at Authentic George Blanda Jersey stopping women covering their faces in public was entirely justified.

They said that the right of ordinary people to 'live together' was a 'legitimate objective', George Blanda Jersey and that Muslim women wearing face coverings threatened it.

France's parliament passed a burka ban in 2010, leading to protests from Islamic groups who said it Jack Tatum Jersey was discriminatory.

Today lawyers for an anonymous 24 year old university graduate told the Strasbourg based court that the ban was Howie Long Jersey 'degrading' and a 'breach of religious freedom'.

The complainant, identified only by George Blanda Raiders Jersey her initials SAS, is a French citizen but has family in Birmingham.

Her British lawyer Tony Muman told the court at an earlier hearing that she is a 'perfect French citizen with a university education. She speaks of her country with passion. She is a patriot'

SAS in turn said in a written statement that being forced to take off her veil in public constituted 'degrading treatment'.

The law, Jack Tatum Raiders Jersey which came into force in 2011, means women who wear full face veils in public can be fined around 130.

There have been arrests and convictions in France, but attempts to enforce the ban have also sparked disturbances, including a riot in the Authentic Jack Tatum Jersey Paris Howie Long Raiders Jersey suburb of Trappes last year.

An appeals court in Versailles, near Paris, is today considering the case of a man who attacked police when they stopped his veiled Authentic Howie Long Jersey wife, and he ended up with a three month suspended prison sentence.

Ruling: Judges at the European Court of Human Rights said that the right of ordinary people to 'live together' was a 'legitimate objective', and that Muslim women wearing face coverings threatened it