Przysięga religijna a konwencyjne gwarancje wolności myśli, sumienia i religii w orzecznictwie ETPC
Religious Oath and the Convention Guarantees of Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion in ECHR Case Law

Summary/Abstract: The article presents, through the prism of the European Court of Human Rights relatively recent (19 October 2021) decision on the admissibility of the complaint in Shortall and Othersv. Ireland, as well as other decisions of the Court, the rarely raised in the literature but still important issue of the compatibility of the religious oath – required in the procedure for access to selected public positions in some Council of Europe countries – with the freedom of thought, conscience and religion guaranteed, inter alia, by Article 9 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The text opens and is supplemented by historical-legal references to national and foreign solutions to the issue in question.

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