Moscow on Friday condemned France’s exclusion of Muslim athlete Sounkamba Sylla from the Paris Olympics opening ceremony as an act of segregation, News.Az reports citing Russian media.

Amnesty International has condemned France's ban on female athletes wearing the hijab at the Paris Olympic Games, labeling it as "discriminatory hypocrisy" on the part of French authorities and a display of "craven weakness" by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), News.Az reports.