المصريون – بتاريخ 9 - 2 - 2008........ وقال جمال عيد رئيس الشبكة العربية لحقوق الإنسان ان هذا الحكم ربما يحل بعض القضايا الإجرائية لكنه سيفتح الباب أمام التمييز ضد أولئك المواطنين من جانب " ضباط أو موظفي حكومة متطرفين" عندما يرون في البيانات أنهم تركوا الإسلام. يأتي هذا الحكم بعد أقل من أسبوعين من حكم أصدرته محكمة للمرة الأولى يمنح البهائيين حق الحصول على أوراق هوية حكومية، على أن تترك خانة الديانة شاغرة، لأنها غير معترف بها رسميا في مصر
CAIRO, Daily News Egypt: In a landmark ruling by Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court Saturday, 12 Christian converts to Islam who wished to convert back to Christianity were allowed to change their religious affiliation in their national identification cards.....“This ruling is a step forward for freedom of belief in Egypt, but we still have a long way ahead of us to further ingrain this principle,” lawyer Ramsis Al Naggar told Daily News Egypt.
The new ruling stipulated that, while the converts may obtain new documents identifying them as Christians, these documents should refer to their previous conversion to Islam. The court justified this by saying that it would prevent the manipulation of such conversions for legal purposes with social ramifications such as marriage or parentage during the time they had embraced Islam. “The administrative court found that the lower court’s refusal to accept changes in the religious affiliations of both Christians and Bahais is in violation of both Egyptian law and international treaties of which Egypt is signatory,” Hossam Bahgat head of EIPR told Daily News Egypt. “This ruling doesn’t mark any real progress in the sate of freedom of faith in Egypt,” said Eid. “The text of the Bahai ruling violently attacked the Bahai faith and the recent decision concerning Christians stipulates that they had converted from Islam which opens the doors for discrimination against them.”
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