"STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Two Muslim women blocked from a Goteborg swimming pool for refusing to change their clothing won more than $3,100 each in damages Tuesday. The Court of Appeal in Western Sweden, overruling an earlier lower court decision, ordered Goteborg to pay each woman 20,000 kronor and legal costs for discriminating against them.

The women – dressed in headscarves, sweatpants and long-sleeved T-shirts – accompanied their children to the public pool on two separate occasions in April 2004 but were asked to leave after refusing to change their clothes."

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