Strictly speaking, the European Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter referred to as “ECHR”) does not include a specific provision aimed at protecting religious minorities. The relevant provisions are indeed Article 9 (Freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and 14 (Prohibition of discrimination); and while neither provision explicitly deals with religious minorities, the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “ECtHR” or, simply, “the Court”) shows that the two provisions are in fact to be interpreted jointly and broadly. Article 9 not only provides for the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, but also the ‘freedom to change [one’s] religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest [their] religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance’; and such freedoms may be limited only ‘as […] prescribed by law and […] necessary in a democratic society in the interests of p...