Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Freedom to Practice One's Religion Undisturbed (Art. 4 para. 2 of the Basic Law) and Its Limitation in Prison I: No Active Procurement of Halal Food

by Silvia Tellenbach

Question(s) at stake

Whether there is an obligation of the state to actively provide halal food to Muslim prisoners.

Outcome of the ruling

The state is obliged to offer Muslim prisoners the opportunity to get halal food, but it is not obliged to actively procure it for them.

Country:

Germany

Official citation

Higher Regional Court Berlin, 2nd Criminal Division, Order of 14 July 2011 , 2 Ws 248/11 Vollz (Kammergericht, Beschluss vom 14. Juli 2011, 2 Ws 248/11 Vollz)

ECLI:DE:KG:2011:0714.2WS248.11VOLLZ.0A

Topic(s)

Keywords:

Halal Prisoners Prisons Dietary regimes

Tag(s):

Right to selfcatering halal

Bibliographic information

Tellenbach, Silvia (2024): Freedom to Practice One's Religion Undisturbed (Art. 4 para. 2 of the Basic Law) and Its Limitation in Prison I: No Active Procurement of Halal Food, Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany, CUREDI033DE026, https://doi.org/10.48509/CUREDI033DE026.

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About the authors

Silvia Tellenbach (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany) ORCID logo

Dr. Dr.h.c. Silvia Tellenbach is the long-time former Head of the Turkey, Iran and Arab States Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (presently: 'Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law').

Within the CUREDI project, she is using her expertise in criminal law in Germany to identify court decisions, where cultural and religious diversity issues were involved. In addition to writing templates on such cases, she acts as a reviewer and is a member of the CUREDI Editorial Board.