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Azerbaijan allows Muslim women wearing scarves to vote
By: Anjum Kermani
BAKU, Azerbaijan: Top election authority of Azerbaijan
performed an unexpected about-face Tuesday and said that voters could
use Soviet-era passports and temporary documents as proof of their
identity during parliamentary election scheduled on this weekend.
The move came just hours after a group representing thousands of
devout Muslim women appealed to President Ilham Aliev to repeal the
government ban on identity papers bearing pictures of women in hijabs,
or headscarves.
They said their rights as citizens and voters were being violated.
The group had said that the women would be unable to cast votes in
Sunday's election because they have no identity papers.
In the country, Muslims are obliged to pose bareheaded for photographs
if they want to obtain an identity card.
The dispute sharpened this summer as a deadline passed for all
Azerbaijani citizens to trade in their old Soviet passports for new
identity papers.
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