Ukraine

Ukrainian Muslim woman loses court battle for the right to be photographed in headscarf

Publication Date: 
July 6, 2010
Source: 
Korrespondent


The Kyiv District Administrative Court has rejected the suit brought on behalf of 25-year-old Susanna Ismailova from Bakhchysarai (the Crimea). She had asked the court to order the Ministry of Internal Affairs [MIA] to allow her to have a passport photo taken in her hijab or Muslim headscarf.

The court deemed that Ms Ismailova’s rights were not restricted by the insistence that she be photographed without the scarf.