About 200 parliament members signed a petition on Tuesday to express support for a draft law submitted by another fellow member, Ismail Nasr El-Din, in order to omit the religion field from the National ID card. These signatures were collected by Nasr El-Din who previously affirmed that he will insist on the bill until the parliament’s administration approves its discussion in a plenary session. Earlier in November, the member drafted a law to fight societal discrimination by calling on the government to omit the religion field from the national ID card. He also said that it is not appropriate to have a religion field in the National ID, but it is important to be included in birth and marriage certificates. Every citizen must hold at all times Egypt’s National ID card, which will include basic information about individuals including age, occupation, place of residence, marital status and religious affiliation.

Source: Daily News Egypt December 12, 2018 16:30 UTC