UPDATE: I received the following press release from the EIPR…

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
Right to Privacy Program
Press Update- 29 November 2006
Supreme Admin Court Decision on Official Documents for Baha’is to be announced on 16 December
After only one hearing, the Supreme Administrative Court ’s First Circuit yesterday set 16 December as the date on which it will decide on the right of Baha’i Egyptians to have their faith recognized in their official identification documents. The last time this Court had considered the issue was in a 1983 ruling that found Baha’is may not be forced to claim any other religious affiliations in order to obtain necessary official documents such as identity cards and birth certificates.
“This case is extremely important not only for Baha’is but for all Egyptians,” said Hossam Bahgat, Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. “We hope the Supreme Administrative Court will echo its previous ruling and uphold the constitutional right of all citizens to choose their religious beliefs.”
During yesterday’s hearing the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) submitted to the court a brief on behalf of the Egyptian Baha’i family that had filed the original lawsuit in 2004. The brief outlines the legal obligations of the Egyptian government under both the Constitution and international human rights law, notably the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to protect the rights to freedom of belief, non-discrimination, privacy and personal freedom.
The brief also included a detailed response to the government’s claims that recognizing the Baha’i faith in official documents contravened Islamic Shari’a, that Shari’a permitted coexistence only among Muslims, Christians and Jews, and that Baha’is should be treated as apostates according to Shari’a.
Moreover, the EIPR’s brief challenged the government’s claim that listing the Baha’i faith in official documents would violate public order. Baha’is had been able for decades to list their religious affiliation in their identification documents until the Interior Ministry arbitrarily decided in recent years to force them to choose one of the three “recognized” religions of Islam, Christianity of Judaism in exchange for granting them these necessary documents. Baha’i Egyptians have repeatedly asked the government to leave the religious affiliation line blank in their identification documents or to insert the word ‘others’ instead of forcing them to falsely claim to adhere to another faith.
The Supreme Administrative Court will decide weather or not to uphold a 4 April decision of the lower Administrative Justice Court in favor of two Baha’i parents who wanted identity cards and birth certificates for themselves and their three daughters after the Interior Ministry had confiscated the documents upon discovering they recognized them as Baha’is.