Rights court upholds French headscarf ban in hospital job

November 26, 2015 16:52

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.

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