A top EU official and former Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief has challenged the 2021 COVID restrictions on public worship at the European Court of Human Rights.
Bringing the potentially precedent-setting religious freedom case to the court in Strasbourg (ECHR) on July 28, Dr. Ján Figeľ stated that worship bans are “illiberal and non-democratic”.
Figeľ, who is co-represented by human rights organisation ADF International and local Slovak lawyer Martin Timcsak, asked whether blanket bans on public worship were compatible with the international human right to the communal exercise of religious freedom.
