Europe’s top human rights court on Thursday upheld France’s headscarf ban in the case of a Muslim social worker, AP said. Christiane Ebrahimian was working in the psychiatric department at a public hospital in Nanterre and lost her job because she would not remove her scarf. The case dates to 2000, when she learned that her contract would not be renewed because patients had complained about her refusal to remove her headscarf. France’s government bars public employees from displaying religious beliefs on the job. The ban has since been extended to schoolchildren and parents who want to accompany a class outing.