Hearings begin in ‘Christian persecution’ cases at European Court of Human Rights

September 3, 2012 | Filed under: Newswire,Secular Press Releases,UK & Europe | Posted by:
Today the European Court of Human Rights will begin chamber hearings in the cases of Chaplin v. the United Kingdom, Eweida v. the United Kingdom, Ladele v. the United Kingdom and McFarlane v. the United Kingdom. The applicants, four practicing Christians’, complain that domestic law failed to adequately protect their right to manifest their religion. The British Humanist Association (BHA) has stated that domestic courts were right to uphold human rights and equalities law and principles in dismissing cases of alleged Christian discrimination.

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