(Brussels Times) A teacher of Islamic religion who was transferred from his school in Anderlecht in Brussels after publishing controversial remarks about the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo has no case for a breach of his freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled.
Yacob Mahi was teaching at the Da Vinci school in Anderlecht shortly after the attack on the magazine in Paris in January 2015, following its publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.
At the school, the issue caused fights between students, and a petition condemning a teacher who had spoken in defence of the magazine. One student who refused to sign the petition was attacked and badly injured.
