Human Rights Watch's 2009 report on Egypt's Interior Ministry decree, issued after the Supreme Administrative Court's 16 March 2009 ruling, permitting citizens whose religion is not Islam, Christianity or Judaism to receive identity documents with a dash in the religion field.
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: Human Rights Watch, an established international human rights organization, reporting independently on the government decree rather than the decree text itself. NotesInternational human rights organization reporting on Egypt's official Supreme Administrative Court ruling and the Interior Ministry decree implementing it; no English-language text of the Egyptian court's own ruling or gazette notice was located directly.
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PublisherHuman Rights Watch
URLhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2009/04/15/egypt-decree-ends-id-bias-against-bahais
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This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Religions, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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