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Bahais sore over Egypt court ruling
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI:
The Bahai community in the country has expressed its distress over a recent ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court in Cairo, Egypt, disallowing Bahais to obtain officially issued identification.
``Our fellow Bahais in Egypt simply wish to be free to carry out the requirement of the civil law by obtaining identification cards without making false statements about their religious beliefs,'' Farida Vehdi of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of India said in a statement here on Saturday. The possession of such identification cards is the common right of every native-born Egyptian.
She said December ruling was ``unreasonable'' not only because it was contrary to prescriptions set forth in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Egypt is a signatory, but more especially because the sacred scriptures of Islam extol tolerance as a precept of social stability.
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