STAVROPOL, April 22 (RAPSI) - Parents whose children are not allowed to wear Muslim headscarves to school have appealed the ruling in the Supreme Court, lawyer Murad Musayev told RIA Novosti on Monday.

The ban came into force last September after the Stavropol Territory government issued a decision requiring schoolchildren to wear uniforms. The uniform requirements do not allow children to wear brightly colored clothes, pants and skirts with a low waistline or high slits, veils, accessories with informal youth group symbols, and religious clothes.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Stavropol Territory's Muslim population, who seek to annul the new school uniform requirements. The Stavropol Territorial Court rejected the lawsuit in March.

A similar litigation was launched in Siberia last month. A local television station in the city of Krasnoyarsk reported that a student from the Muslim-populated region of Dagestan was expelled from the city's medical school for wearing a headscarf.

The local prosecutors protested the ban as violating education law.