Austria’s ban on headscarves for girls under 14 faces its first test as schools reopen in Vienna and two other states on Monday. Austria’s main Muslim organisation has called the law discriminatory and plans to challenge it in the Constitutional Court.
The ban applies to schools and was proposed by Austria’s three-party centrist coalition. The government said the measure would protect girls’ freedom. Parliament approved the legislation in December with support from the far-right Freedom Party. The left-wing Greens were the only party in parliament to oppose it.
