الثلاثاء، 26 أبريل 2016
British report criticizes the human rights situation in Egypt, diplomatic sources: accusations of biased and unacceptable
It confirmed the official and popular rejection of foreign intervention Egyptian destinations, especially from Britain, Germany and the United States in the internal affairs of Egypt under the pretext of protecting human rights.
Diplomatic sources said, «home», in response to a report in the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs on human rights in Egypt, said the report «is neutral» to its dependence on human rights organizations data informal and not documented and did not mention the progress that Egypt has to made in the human past period rights file .
The sources said that «British Foreign Office report said that Egypt suffers from a significant terrorist threat, and it should not be a comparison between the European and British standards, especially among the criteria in Egypt in light of the risks to the broad challenges of terrorism».
The sources also pointed out that «Egypt rejects accusations against them concerning the existence of a deterioration in the human rights file».
The British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of «Commonwealth» for Human Rights and Democracy issued, yesterday, their annual report for 2015 on the state of human rights, who claimed that «the human rights situation in Egypt still continues to deteriorate amid a major terrorist threat, and the Egyptian government continued activists, journalists and protesters arrested and despite the fact that 2015 saw a pardon for a small number of prisoners, Egypt continued activists arrested in February 2015 and sentenced to 230 activists to life in prison in a mass trial, and in May was sentenced to former President Mohamed Morsi to death, and the periods of pre-trial detention such as the case of long Mahmoud Abu Zeid, known as «Hukan» on remand since August 2013, in addition to reports on carried out by the police of torture, and the increase in cases of enforced disappearance in 2015 ».
The annual report pointed out that «there are reports of organizations, an Egyptian non-governmental organizations documented 676 cases of torture and 137 deaths in the arrest and detention centers, as the Commission on Human Rights presented a list of 191 people have been forced into hiding, to the Ministry of Interior, which responded that 99 of them detained and 15 were released» . The report pointed out that «the Egyptian authorities have tightened the freedom of civil society and the ability of non-governmental organizations to work and record violations and access to finance, and to prevent a number of prominent defenders of human rights from traveling.»
She called «foreign» British to support freedom of expression and raising the importance of freedom of religion or belief with the Egyptian authorities, and to encourage inter-religious dialogue, and hoped to be the 2016 opportunity for Egypt to make progress in the field of human rights, particularly the recommendations, which confirmed the commitment in the periodic review in UN human rights Council. The British Foreign it would support government initiatives and civil society to improve the human rights situation, by continuing to raise concerns, both in the financing of public projects or private.
In contrast, former Assistant Foreign Minister Kamal Abdalmtaal stressed that «the British Foreign Office adopted in its annual report on human rights in Egypt on human rights organizations, reports of non-formal and transporting the facts are not documented and formal but not neutral nor navigate the risks to Egypt from the dangers of terrorism and challenges».
A number of lawyers and stressed that «the inclusion of Britain Egypt as an exciting state of concern in its assessment of the human rights is normal, intended from the point of Britain's view that the human rights situation in Egypt has not yet reached the ideal class, and this is subject to the standards pertaining to the British Foreign Office», arguing that the consequences of this report is that the UK allocates funds from the government budget to pump in human rights projects in Egypt. » Said Dalia increase, the director of the Egyptian Center for Democratic Studies, said that «the subject of classification Britain to Egypt as an exciting state of concern, intended from the point of Britain's view that the human rights situation in Egypt has not yet to the ideal class up, and this is subject to the standards pertaining to the British Foreign Office and not Indeed, the standards say that despite everything we are going through economic difficulties and security challenges we have made significant progress on the level of economic and social rights ». She noted that usually the consequences of this report is that the UK allocates funds from the government budget to pump in human rights projects in Egypt, with a local non-governmental organizations, adding: «That's what I expect to be announced in the coming period».
Said Hafez Abu Seada, a member of the Human Rights National Council, said that the report will reflect on British foreign policy on human rights issues in Egypt, pointing out that the next step is for the action to improve its human rights record and we can cooperate with Britain to improve the human rights situation. He pointed out that «Egypt needs to restore the rehabilitation of staff assigned to the program of law enforcement». Dr. Naguib Gabriel, head of the Egyptian Union Organization for Human Rights, said that there is a state coalition against Egypt, pointing out that the American statement of the European Parliament and external, all criticizing the human rights situation in Egypt
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