Religion – Weltanschauung – Recht [ RWR ]

In the Chamber judgment of 16 July 2026 in the case of G K and A S v. Switzerland (application nos. 55299/20 and 31515/22) the European Court of Human Rights held, by 6 votes to 1, that there had been violations of Article 9 (freedom of thought and conscience) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned the failure to provide the applicants with a vegan diet while they had been in the care of the State. The first applicant had been in pre-trial detention, while the second had been confined in a psychiatric hospital. Despite making requests, the applicants did not receive entirely vegan diets. However, no formal administrative “decisions” had been taken which could have been appealed against under national law and which would have enabled the Swiss courts to examine the merits of their complaints. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »