Belgium: Court rules against headscarf ban Court rules in favor of student who filed a case against school administration in Flemish region

(Anadolu) A court in Belgium ruled in favor of a schoolgirl and against the headscarf ban in the Flemish region of the country.

The school which the student had filed a case against is affiliated to a public body named GO! Education of Flemish Community. The body had decided to ban [the] headscarf in all public schools affiliated to it in the Flemish region of Belgium in 2013.

The Court of First Instance in the eastern Leuven city ruled that the student can go to school by wearing a headscarf.

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