Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Lithuania) - Konstitucinis Teismas (Lituania)

Date: 09/07/2021

Subject: The decision of the Konstitucinis Teismas (Constitutional Court), found the constitutional legitimacy of article 6(2) of Law on Religious Communities and Associations, concerning the terms for religious communities and associations to request the State’s recognition, recalling the norms of the ECHR, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the TEU and the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg in the matter of freedom of thought, conscience and religion

Parties: A group of members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 10 Freedom of thought - Freedom of conscience - Freedom of religion

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