The European Court of Human Rights has rejected two appeals against a ban on the construction of new minarets in Switzerland. Judges ruled that the plaintiffs – three Muslim organisations and a private citizen – were not victims of an alleged human rights violation.
The Strasbourg-based court on Friday announced that the complaints by the applicants were not admissible.
“The main complaint was that a disputed constitutional provision offended their religious beliefs. However, they did not allege that it had had any practical effect on them,” the statement said.
The applicants could not prove either that they were indirect victims because none of them was planning on building a mosque with a minaret in Switzerland in the near future, it added. [swissinfo.ch] Read more [via The Iconoclast]
