Meanwhile, the Shūrá Council’s Constitutional & Legislative Affairs Committee came up with a report on its vision regarding the chapters on freedoms, the rule of law and the state’s powers in the constitution, to be discussed on Tuesday (July 17) as a guiding approach.

The committee proposed that the phrase “non-Muslims may have recourse to their own religious laws on matters of personal status” from Article II to the chapter on rights and freedoms in the constitution for classification purposes. [Muhammad ‘Abd al-Qādir, Husām Sadaqah and Muhammad Gharīb, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 16, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic