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  • Engin Firat

A Right to an Answer: G.K. and A.S. v. Switzerland  and the duty to engage with Convention claims

September 01, 2026

By Engin Firat Everyone is calling G.K. and A.S. v. Switzerland the vegan judgment. On 16 July 2026 the European Court of Human Rights held for the first time that dietary rules ‘dictated by genuine and consistently held vegan beliefs’ fall within the scope of Article 9 of the Convention, the freedom of thought, conscience […]