State lifts ban serves halal meals in prison

From AFP | AFP -

Council of State suspended "temporarily" on Wednesday, November 7, 2013 decision of the Administrative Court of Grenoble requires the director of the prison of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère) halal meals for Muslim prisoners.

Council of State was in the same direction as the President of the Higher Administrative Court of Lyon, who also requested, on July 2 that sentence.

"The Minister of Justice, who has this decision before the Administrative Court? Appeal of Lyon appealed, called La Junta? State (...) it? During execution of your complaint exposed? Review," said a statement from the Supreme Administrative Court on Wednesday.

Advice? State considered that? Execution? Such a move would be "due to its high organizational and financial effort to justify difficult to reverse that results? She hears the appeals court rules on appeal? Minister against the decision."

Taken prisoner, November 7, 2013, the Director of the Administrative Court of Grenoble ordered in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier "normal" Halal meat detained compounds menus offer "three months".

The court ruled that the principle of secularism, "requires that the Republic guarantees religious freedom" without "an obstacle to the Muslim prisoners menus were offered over meat for religious rituals of Islam."

Court also, that the refusal to halal menus offer, ignoring the provisions of Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the prison director.

He argues that providing halal meals in turn leads to "prison service interruption," seized the Justice Department, the emergency procedures of the Higher Administrative Court of Lyon. But he initially refused to stop the execution of the judgment on March 20, arguing that the government "does not show the results difficult to repair", it would have been for him.

Then considering the merits of the beginning of July is the case, the reporter asked for a decision, saying that "comply with such a requirement with the severe resource constraints that may be uncontrollable due to the diversity and complexity of practice, other religions? Delivery."