This decision is in harmony with a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in June 1993 in a similar case in which the Court determined that Austria had discriminated against Ingrid Hoffmann, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, on the basis of her religion.
فقد وجدت المحكمة آنذاك ان النمسا أظهرت التحيُّز الديني ضد شاهدة ليهوه تُدعى انڠريت هوفمان .‏