http://www.arabnews.com/?page=13§ion=0&article=72577&d=7&m=11&y=2005
Tuesday, 1, November, 2005 (29, Ramadhan, 1426)
Courts and Women's IDs
Qenan Al-Ghamdi . Al-Watan, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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