[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Courts and Women's IDs

From: "Ambon" <sea@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 03:25:29 +0100
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            Tuesday, 1, November, 2005 (29, Ramadhan, 1426)



                  Courts and Women's IDs
                  Qenan Al-Ghamdi . Al-Watan, qenan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
                    
                  After delays which stretched into decades, after many studies 
and after numerous cases of forged identities, the Interior Ministry finally 
approved civil identification cards for Saudi women. Women were given the 
option of getting the cards if they wanted them; the choice was left to the 
individual woman. Many women decided to forgo the cards - not because they 
didn't want one but because of a father, husband or brother who objects to the 
card because it has the woman's picture on it. This excuse, which we are told 
is based in religion, was a means by which men kept the women they were 
responsible for from getting official identification.

                  Nowadays, however, there are many women who have identity 
cards and this is a good thing. The inexplicable fact is that there are 
government departments which reject the identity cards. The departments demand 
some other identification - such as the family card or two witnesses to vouch 
for the woman's identity.

                  The department that is said to refuse women's identity cards 
is in fact the Justice Department. Al-Watan reported an incident two weeks ago 
at a court in Jubail. The judge refused the identification cards of two sisters 
and asked them to bring their family card instead. Not only that but he asked 
them who had taken the pictures which were on their identity cards.

                  Saudi courts have seen many cases resulting from women 
pretending to be other women in order to claim money and assets. A proper 
woman's identity card puts an end to such problems and keeps the cases out of 
our already-clogged courts. Surely - and officially - a judge does not have the 
power or right to refuse an identity card issued by the government which 
employs him. What about his own identity card, also issued by the government? 
Is it acceptable or not?

                  The Ministry of Labor has issued a circular directing all 
government departments to accept women's identity cards but there are still 
judges who refuse to do so. Perhaps those judges need instruction in realizing 
the difference between their preferences and current government regulations. 

                 
                    
           
     


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