Tunis’s Education Department made all new students enrolling as freshman to adhere to this law – forcing them to choose between attending college or wearing the hijab. Female students are forced to sign a document stating that they will not wear the hijab and male students are forced to sign stating that they will not grow a beard.
This document also forbade wearing any form of cultural dress. It emphasized that students must enter the campus clean shaved and without hijabs. The document warns: “Anyone who disobeys this document will be expelled and, if needed, will be criminally charged.”
Students are also prohibited from any sort of political activity.
