29 September 2007, 12:52
Girls wearing hijabs were not let to school in Azerbaijan
During a week, the girls wearing hijabs could not get to their school lessons in the city of Sumgait (Azerbaijan).
According to Nasib Namazov, brother of one of them, from the start of the current school year director Tirme Gurbanova has warned the schoolgirls several times and, eventually, has forbidden to them to attend lessons until they take their hijabs off.
While telling that after interference of the public the girls were admitted to their classrooms, N. Namazov has expressed his assumption that the lady-director can set up problems again. He noted that in connection with this problem appeals had been made to a number of state structures and to Sumgait believers.
School director Tirme Gurbanova asserts that by putting their hijabs on to school the pupils breached the charter of the educational institution according to which "every pupil should wear the school uniform."
Earlier, girls-students of one of the higher schools of the capital were not let to their studies, and the top manager of the educational institution was also the initiator of the ban, the APA Agency informed.
We remind you that the "Caucasian Knot" has informed earlier that the Sumgait City Court (Azerbaijan) has satisfied the lawsuit of Shakhla Alieva to the managers of the "Istedad" Lyceum in Sumgait and reinstated her in the position of a teacher of biology.
She had been dismissed after her refusal to take her hijab off during the lessons. However, today the Court has restored Ms Alieva at work and has obliged the Lyceum management to pay out her salary for the whole period after her dismissal. The part of the claim concerning moral compensation was not satisfied. We note here that this was the first court decision of this kind in Azerbaijan.
