Swiss Muslim girls must take swimming classes with boys: Europe court
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By AFP 1 hour ago in World
Muslim parents in Switzerland cannot refuse to send their daughters to mixed school-run swimming lessons, Europe's rights top court ruled Tuesday, responding to a challenge by a Turkish-Swiss couple who argued the classes violated their beliefs.
The European Court of Human Rights accepted that the refusal by authorities to exempt girls from the lessons interfered with their freedom of religion.
But the interference, it said, was justified by the need to protect the children from social exclusion.
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