Although the law did not require it, Egyptian police have for decades demanded that poor women seeking a passport get proof from the vice squad that they were not involved in prostitution or other immoral activities. Women with at least a high school education or employed by the government were not required to get the vice squad clearance. But millions of illiterate or poor women were required to undergo a vice squad investigation, considered shameful for women in this conservative, Muslim country. The decision is part of an administrative overhaul in the police ordered by el-Adly after he took over the ministry in November 1997. The Associated Press.
Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave.