(ANSA-AP) - BERLIN, 16 MAG - Austrian lawmakers have approved
plans to ban girls in elementary schools from wearing
headscarves, a move that would add to existing restrictions on
veils.
The Austria Press Agency reported that lawmakers from the
governing coalition of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's conservative
People's Party and the anti-migration Freedom Party supported
the measure late Wednesday.
Kurz's party conceded that the new headscarf ban is likely to
face challenges at Austria's Constitutional Court. The measure
bans wearing "ideologically or religiously characterized
clothing" that covers the head, and specifies that it refers to
items "that cover the whole or large parts of the hair."
Austria's previous government prohibited full-face veils in
courts, schools and other "public places" and banned police
officers, judges, magistrates and public prosecutors from
wearing headscarves. (ANSA-AP).
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