(Brussels Times) The Court of Appeal in Antwerp has ruled that a ban on wearing headscarves in two schools in the municipality of Maasmechelen in the Limburg province is justified, on Tuesday.
With its decision, the Antwerp court overturns an earlier decision of the court in Tongeren, which has ruled that 11 girls from the Atheneum Maasland (now GO! Maxwell) and the Nikola Tesla schools, whose parents had started a legal procedure, were allowed to wear their headscarves even though the schools had forbidden it last year, reports De Standaard.
The Tongeren court last year made its decision based on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which imposes the obligation on European countries to allow all their citizens to freely practise their religion.
