“Just give us the right to leave the box for religious affiliation on our official documents blank. We are simply asking the authorities to not force us to state a religion that we are not members of,” Shady Samir, Bahai told Daily News Egypt.
“We can’t work, we can’t do anything. I don’t know how to live in my own country,” Hussein Hosni, the father of Abdel-Massih told Daily News Egypt.
Birth certificates and identity cards are mandatory and children cannot enroll in public schools without them........Egypt is a signatory of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, making “protection of citizens from religious discrimination” and “education without distinction on any basis, including religion or belief” legally binding.
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