(ANSAMED) - MADRID, FEBRUARY 28 - The Spanish Supreme Court
on Thursday repealed a 2010 Lerida (Catalonia) city ban on
clothes that cover the face, such as the burka and the Islamic
veil, from public buildings.
Such clothing does not endanger the safety of citizens, nor did the ban preserve women's equality, local media cited court sources as saying. "Banning the Islamic veil limits the exercise of religious freedom," the court said, overruling the Catalan Supreme Court, which upheld the Lerida ban against an appeal by the Catalan Muslim association, Watani. After Lerida, other Catalan city councils passed similar bans. (ANSAMED).
Such clothing does not endanger the safety of citizens, nor did the ban preserve women's equality, local media cited court sources as saying. "Banning the Islamic veil limits the exercise of religious freedom," the court said, overruling the Catalan Supreme Court, which upheld the Lerida ban against an appeal by the Catalan Muslim association, Watani. After Lerida, other Catalan city councils passed similar bans. (ANSAMED).
