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Home » Press Releases » EGY - News » Alkarama reveals new detentions, calls on Egypt to abide by its commitments to Human Rights Council
These cases, in the view of the Working Group for Arbitrary Detention, are committed solely in order to punish expression of opinion, and this constitutes a violation by the Egyptian government of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. For these reasons, the Working Group called upon the Egyptian government to work in accordance with the terms of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which it ratified on 14 January 1982.
The Working Group also observed that their detentions took place without notification and without telling them why they were detained, and they were all initially held in secret locations for periods ranging from a year to three years, where they were tortured by members of the Egyptian general directorate of investigation.
Alkarama for Human Rights expresses its great concern over the continued detentions by administrative order of a number of Egyptian citizens for many years (11 to 14 years) solely under the provisions of the Emergency Law, continuing their imprisonment without trial and without any legal procedures against them, in contradiction to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which Egypt ratified on 14 January 1982.
Alkarama calls upon the Egyptian authorities immediately to release these detainees and to honour the obligations that follow from the promissory declarations it made in order to run for the Human Rights Council.
Alkarama
Geneva 03/07/2007