Thursday 14/November/2024 – 02:27 PM
The Administrative Court decided to set a December 14 session to consider the case to cancel the decision to require prior travel authorization for women Egyptian women who want to travel To Saudi Arabia.
December 14: Consideration of a case to cancel a prior travel authorization decision for women heading to Saudi Arabia
Dr. Hani Sameh, the lawyer, had filed a lawsuit with the State Council, which is being considered by the First Department of Rights and Freedoms, demanding, as a matter of urgency, the cancellation of the decision that it described as individual and issued by the General Administration of Passports and Immigration to require groups of women to obtain prior permission to travel to Saudi Arabia from those whom it described as the lower categories and those who were registered as working for a female employer. A home, a diploma holder, and an unemployed woman who wishes to travel to Saudi Arabia for the purposes of visiting and working, and to ensure that the justifications for their travel are serious, along with the consequences. The most important effects of this are the implementation of the Constitution and the law in the freedom of travel, immigration and movement for women and citizens without discrimination or male domination. It also demanded the abolition of discrimination against women, the abolition of discrimination between groups in society, and the abolition of the consideration that there are lower classes and professions, while obligating the administration to prohibit classification and discrimination between groups and not to look at data. Employment and social status and gender in making decisions and transactions.
It was stated in the lawsuit newspaper, which bore No. 9631 of the judicial year 79, that the modern Egyptian constitution, the most important acquisition of the blessed June Revolution, came to uphold the public and personal rights of women, including the prohibition of discrimination, racism, and tyranny, the prohibition of travel bans, and the prohibition of imposing any reactionary restrictions or confiscation of their rights to work, travel, immigration, and decision-making. This was accompanied by modern civil society, which demanded axioms that are the foundations for building civilization, including the abolition of discrimination on the basis of class, occupation, religion, or social.
The lawsuit denounced the decision issued by the Passports Department, deeming housewives, educated women with diplomas, and those without work as low categories who have no right to travel except with the authoritarian, racist permission of a public employee.
In the lawsuit, on October 26, a decision was issued by the General Administration of Passports, Immigration and Nationality in Egypt, the text of which was “obligating women from the lower categories and clarifying that those who wrote in the field of working for them are a housewife – and those who hold a diploma – and those who are without work who wish to travel to Saudi Arabia for the purposes of visiting and working to obtain They must obtain prior permission from the General Administration of Passports, ensuring that their travel justifications are serious.”
The lawsuit stated that classifying groups as the lower class is an individual decision issued by a person who has not read a word about the Constitution of the June Revolution and the principles of human justice. The sin is magnified when the term “lower classes” is defined to include the professions of babysitters, house managers, maids, nannies, cooks, and hairdressers. Beauty experts and teachers, seamstresses, fashion designers, embroidery experts, waitresses, saleswomen, sales and marketing representatives, Secretaries, home nurses, switch workers, nursery supervisors, file clerks, and administrative supervisors, in addition to non-working women, those with intermediate qualifications, and those holding diplomas.
It was stated in the newspaper that no one has the right to prohibit or restrict the travel of female citizens in accordance with the text of the Constitution and its sixty-second article except by a judicial order directed to a specific person, for reasons and for a specific period, as the Constitution stipulates that freedom of movement, residence and immigration is guaranteed and he cannot be prevented from leaving the state’s territory except by a reasoned judicial order. For a specified period and in the circumstances specified in the law, and that citizens are equal before the law and are equal in rights, freedoms and public duties, with no discrimination between them on the basis of religion, creed, gender or Origin, custom, color, language, disability, social level, political or geographical affiliation, or any other reason, and that discrimination and incitement to hatred are a crime punishable by law.
