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Rights court upholds ban on headscarves in French hospitals
Updated On: 27 November, 2015 08:29 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>After deliberating over a case where a hospital worker was fired for refusing to take off her headscarf, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of the hospital stating that the ban did not affect religious freedom</p>
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Paris: Europe’s top human rights court is upholding France’s headscarf ban in the case of a Muslim social worker, who lost her hospital job because she would not remove her headscarf.
The headscarf ban, imposed in 2004, opened a rift with France’s Muslim community. Pic for representation/AFP
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