{"id":44874,"date":"2014-07-01T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irish_times_european_court_of_human_rights_upholds_french_veil_ban\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:15:43","slug":"irish_times_european_court_of_human_rights_upholds_french_veil_ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44874","title":{"rendered":"(Irish Times) European Court of Human Rights upholds French veil ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights has upheld France\u2019s ban on wearing face-covering veils in public places.<\/p>\n<p>The Strasbourg court decided by a majority that the ban did not violate Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which sets out the right to respect for private and family life, or Article 9, which concerns freedom of thought, conscience and religion.<\/p>\n<p>It found unanimously that the ban was not in breach of Article 14, which prohibits discrimination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/crime-and-law\/european-court-of-human-rights-upholds-french-veil-ban-1.1851478\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights has upheld France\u2019s ban on wearing face-covering veils in public places. The Strasbourg court decided by a majority that the ban did not violate Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44874\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,168,200,468,114,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-france","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}