The bill which was passed on Wednesday is likely to be challenged as discriminatory in Austria’s Constitutional Court.
The law received support from the governing coalition of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz‘s conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), whilst almost all of the opposition voted against it.
The policy does not specifically mention Muslim women or girls, but bans the wearing of “ideologically or religiously characterised clothing” covering the head, and specifically refers to items “that cover the whole or large parts of the hair”.
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