MUSLIM STUDENT LOSES SCHOOL PRAYER BAN CHALLENGE

A Muslim student at a London school has lost a High Court challenge against its ban on prayer rituals.

Michaela School in Brent was challenged by the pupil over a policy said to amount to a prayer ban.

The student at the school, founded by head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh, said the policy was discriminatory.

The secondary school previously told the High Court that allowing prayer rituals risked "undermining inclusion" between pupils.

About half the school's roughly 700 pupils are Muslim, the court previously heard.

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