A contentious legal challenge on religious freedom, centered on the COVID-19 worship bans during lockdowns, has been launched at the European Court of Human Rights by a leading EU official, who has criticized the restrictions as “profoundly illiberal and illegitimate.”
The ban on public worship in Slovakia during the coronavirus pandemic was a violation of religious freedom, the European Court of Human Rights has heard.
A contentious legal challenge on religious freedom, centered on the COVID-19 worship bans during lockdowns, has been launched at the European Court of Human Rights by a leading EU official, who has criticized the restrictions as “profoundly illiberal and illegitimate.”
Bans on communal worship during the pandemic were "profoundly illiberal and illegitimate", says top EU official Jan Figel, who has filed a religious freedom challenge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).