Victory for Egyptian Baha’is over ID cards

Great news! According to Bilo’s Baha’i Faith in Egypt and Iran blog:

…the Baha’is of Egypt have just received a remarkable gift from their judicial establishment. The appeal–brought by Islamist lawyers in their attempt to reverse the 29 January 2008 ruling that permitted the Baha’is of Egypt to obtain ID cards and birth certificates with dashes [--] inserted in place of religious identification–was denied by Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court in its session today. The court also asserted that the 29 January ruling must be now enforced.

Presidential Decree 263

But this welcome step is not the end of the matter for the Egyptian Baha’is. They are still subject to all sorts of restraints because of Presidential Decree 263, issued in 1960 by President Gamal Abdel-Nasser.

It’s time to annul this decree!

Read the rest of the story here.

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