Austria court overturns school headscarf ban : comparemela.c

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Austria court overturns school headscarf ban
Austria's constitutional court has struck down a law prohibiting primary school children from wearing specific religious head coverings.
It said the law was aimed at the Islamic headscarf and breached rights on religious freedom.
The law was passed during the previous coalition government in which the conservative People's Party was allied with the far-right Freedom Party.
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The court ruled that the law was aimed at Muslim schoolgirls and was unconstitutional
The court said the law could lead to the marginalisation of Muslim girls.
It also rejected the government's argument that the prohibition could protect girls from social pressures from classmates, saying it penalised the wrong people.

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