Weekly al-Khamīs reports on page two on Thursday that the National Council for Human Rights is currently discussing a number of complaints submitted by many Bahā’īs, in which they ask for pressure to be applied to the government to allow them to document their marriages and provide them with official papers.
Some of the complaints dealt with difficulties Bahā’ī widows have in obtaining pensions, as well as the hardships that that Bahā’ī couples allegedly face in registering their children.
According to Dr. Ra’ūf Hindī, a spokesman for the Bahā’īs in Egypt, “Until this moment, and despite the issuing of a court ruling on the writing [of our religion] in the space reserved for religion [in official papers], Bahā’īs are still suffering greatly because they are in a state of civil death and are ‘suspended citizens.’”
[Reviewer: Egypt officially recognizes only the three ‘Abrahamite’ religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam].
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