April 19, 2005
Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4461905.stm
On April 19, 2005 BBC News reported, "A French court has upheld a school's decision to expel three Sikh boys for wearing turbans to school. The tribunal said the boys' continued wearing of an under-turban made them 'immediately recognisable as Sikhs.' Under a law passed amid protests in March 2004, French students are barred from wearing conspicuous religious symbols at school. The boys' lawyers said they would appeal and if necessary take their case to the European Court of Human Rights. The boys, aged 15 to 18, were expelled from the Louise-Michel school in Bobigny, north-east of Paris, last November."