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| Tens of Egyptians 'secretly' arrested, missing, Human Rights Watch says |
| 2015-07-22 |
| [Iran Press TV] Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW) says dozens of Egyptians have disappeared after being "secretly" detained by the country's security forces. On Monday, the rights group said dozens of cases of enforced disappearances had been documented from 2013 through 2015. "Egyptian security forces have apparently snatched up dozens of people without a word about where they are or what has happened to them," said the HRW deputy Middle East director Joe Stork. The HRW said three of the cases it documented involved individuals who had been found dead after being incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and taken to an unknown location. On June 4, Seyed al-Rassed, 46, was arrested in Qalyubia Province by plainclothes coppers and a Central Security Forces officer. Days later, his family was notified that his body, which bore torture marks, was at a mortuary. The rights organization also listed a number of other individuals who remain missing. The HRW added that the independent civil society organization Freedom for the Brave said in a report on June 7 that it had documented 164 cases of enforced disappearances since April 2015. The organization says 66 people are still missing. It later reported an additional 39 cases to the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), saying most of them took place in April and May. The HRW says enforced disappearances are considered a serious violation of international human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... law. The US-based organization also said enforced disappearance is considered a crime against humanity if carried out systematically as a matter of policy. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 HRW and Iran Press TV - a perfect match |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-07-22 09:03 |