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19. "Administrative Judiciary" Issue Final Verdict to Prevent Any Veiled Student from Entering the Examinations

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Year: 
2010
Week: 
23
Article number: 
19
Article pages: 
1
Date of source: 
June 7, 2010
Author: 
Ranā Mamdūh
Reviewer: 
Mon&#225 Sa‘d
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Legal bodies question Muslim women’s rights to wear the niqāb during university exams. 

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The Administrative Judiciary Court issued a verdict preventing any veiled student (wearing niqāb) from taking exams, as well as the need to force any student to uncover her face during exams.
أيدت محكمة القضاء الإداري بمجلس الدولة في جلستها المنعقدة، اليوم الأحد، قرار رؤساء جامعات القاهرة وعين شمس وحلوان، بمنع دخول مائتي طالبة بالجامعات الثلاث لحضور امتحانات نهاية العام وهن يرتدين النقاب.
The court said in its final ruling that the examinations mobilize the universities' administrative potentials, as well as offer places needed for accommodating hundreds of thousands of students to sit for examinations in a confined certain period of time. Accordingly, it would be difficult to work out special procedures for verifying the identities of the veiled students scattered throughout the various exam locations.
 
Moreover, wearing the veil (niqāb) would help the hiding of small-sized mobile phones that could be possibly used for cheating in exams, a matter which adds burden on observers who monitor examination committees.
 
The court said there is no harm in making veiled girls reveal their faces during the performance of examinations as long as it is for a temporary period of time.
 
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