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Rights court upholds French headscarf ban in hospital job

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 scarf.

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 scarf.

The case decided today dates to 2000, when Christiane Ebrahimian was working in the psychiatric department at a public hospital in Nanterre.

She learned that her contract would not be renewed because patients had complained about her refusal to remove her headscarf.

France's secular government bars public employees from displaying religious beliefs on the job — a ban that has since been extended to schoolchildren and even parents who want to accompany a class outing.

The headscarf ban, which formally became a law banning "conspicuous" religious symbols in 2004, opened a rift with France's Muslim community, the largest in Europe.  

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