Austrian Constitutional Court will rule on headscarf ban next year, it says

VIENNA: Austria’s Constitutional Court expects to rule on a newly introduced ban on Muslim headscarves for under-14s in schools in the first half of next year, it said on Monday.

The ban, proposed by Austria’s ruling coalition of ‌three centrist parties, was ‌passed in the lower house ​of ‌parliament ⁠in December ​with the ⁠support of the far-right Freedom Party. Only the opposition Greens, the smallest party in…