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02.06.21
Response to Körting in the Tagesspiegel.de
“So help me God” is written in the law. Prohibiting female civil servants from wearing headscarves is not neutral. Anyone who feels they have been treated unfairly in court or at school because of their headscarf can defend themselves in another way. A reply to Berlin’s former interior senator Körting.
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11.05.21
Interview on Hessenschau.de
Student against headscarf ban for female civil servants “Religious symbols are equated with anti-constitutional badges”. A new federal law is to regulate what female civil servants are allowed to wear. The kippa, headscarf and Christian symbols could then be banned. A law student from Frankfurt…
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11.05.21
Article in tagesspiegel.de
Gabriele Boos-Niazy feels transported back to times that were thought to have long since been overcome. Since the Upper House (Bundesrat) also said yes to the “Law on the Physical Appearance of Civil Servants” on Friday, her advice and that of her…
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09.05.21
Article in taz.de
New rules on appearance will soon apply to civil servants. Although they interfere with basic rights, they were passed without debate. FREIBURG taz | New rules will soon apply to the external appearance of civil servants. Striking…
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07.05.21
Interview on Tagesspiegel.de
As a lawyer, like many others, I regularly read the Legal Tribune Online. There I found an article by law professor Kirsten Wiese about the law. She wrote, among other things, that it was not sufficiently publicly addressed that in…
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07.05.21
Article in spiegel.de
The Bundesrat has approved a law regulating the display of right-wing extremist tattoos by civil servants. The only problem is that in future this could also mean that civil servants are banned from wearing a kippa or headscarf, integration commissioners have criticised. The Bundesrat has…
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07.05.21
Interview on Tagesspiegel.de
As a lawyer, like many others, I regularly read the Legal Tribune Online. There I found an article by law professor Kirsten Wiese about the law. She wrote, among other things, that it was not sufficiently publicly addressed that in…
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06.05.21
Article in “Evangelisch”