Shafaqna English- This month, Austria’s new centrist coalition government is preparing a law to ban Hijab for girls under 14 in all schools, with harsher penalties and a requirement for teachers to report violations.
In 2018, shortly after the conservative Austrian People’s Party (OVP) formed a coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), the leadership introduced Hijab ban for girls aged six to 10 in public schools. The law was implemented in 2019 and later struck down by Austria’s Constitutional Court in December 2020.
Now, the government is once again reviving the measure, expanding it with harsher penalties and a wider scope that will include both state and private schools; even Islamic schools.
Sources: Middle East Eye