By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab.
Tripoli, 7 May 2013:
Benghazi’s Public registrar, Yousef Abdurrahim Qarqum, has apologised to women who he said had been abused . . .[restrict]and illtreated by staff when they demonstrated outside the registry demanding to be given their national ID number.
The Libyan women were alleging discrimination because they are married to foreigners.
Qarqum said that any women who had been harassed or insulted in any shape or form should lodge a complaint at the Registry’s management branch in Salawi district so that investigations could be launched against the employees concerned.
Meanwhile, he urged all Libyan women married to foreigners to contact the foreigners’ affairs section at any registry office as of Sunday, 12 May, in order to obtain their new ID numbers. They were being processed as of yesterday, 6 May.
These, however, are only being issued to the Libyan women concerned, not to their spouses or children.
Qarqum, who was kidnapped and beaten last month after threatening to release names of Libyans who were cheating the benefits system by adopting multiple identities, issued figures on numbers of Libyan women in Cyrenaica married to foreigners.
The are:
- Benghazi: 1143
- Ajdabiya: 92
- Jalu: 46
- Kufra: 23
He said that all Libyan women married to foreigners should to complete their registration and establish their status at the foreigners’ affairs section of any registry office as soon as possible.
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