A young Muslim woman will have to be paid 400,000 pesos for not being allowed to wear a "burkini" in a hot springs resort.

Judge Norma Laciar de Luquez ruled this was a case discrimination on religious grounds and ordered a compensation of 400,000 Argentine pesos.

The case occurred in 2017 in the hot springs of Cacheuta, in the province of Mendoza, but the sentence was known this week.

The plaintiff was named Jazmín Azul Jafella, who was 21 at the time of the incident.

The young woman was about to spend a weekend with her family and was wearing a burkini when the manager of the Hotel and Spa Termalia prevented her from entering the swimming area.

The explanation offered by the hotel staff appealed to alleged dress code rules requiring women to wear a bikini or one-piece swimsuit to access the pool area.

This was not the only case for which the company was denounced, as in October 2018 a woman reported that she was forbidden to wear swim shorts and forced to wear a bikini.

For Laciar de Luquez "it is clear that the right to admission cannot be imposed over the right to religious freedom".

In her ruling, she added that the use of burkini "is specific to Muslim women, but not to men who profess this religion" and for this reason, "there is a double stigmatisation".

In the words of the judge, the woman was discriminated against "not only for professing the Muslim religion, but also for being a woman and adhering to the habits, customs and premises that the practice of religion requires due to her gender".