Baha'is struggle to win full rights as Egyptians

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Baha’is struggle to win full rights as Egyptians, brought to you by African News Dimension:

In April, Egypt’s small community of Baha’is rejoiced that they had finally been granted full rights as Egyptians, despite deep-rooted differences in religious ideology. Just last week, however, the government put forward an appeal against the group in an attempt to maintain the status quo.

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“I have been picked up by security forces because I don’t have a real identification card,” a Baha’i in his mid-twenties says. “They have taken me away and have even been violent, screaming at me ‘why don’t you have the proper documents’ ... I tell them because I am Baha’i and that makes them even more angry.”

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