Human Rights Messengers Remain Particularly Vulnerable in Both Countries
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“Both Egypt’s and Libya’s human rights records will come under intense scrutiny by the UN Human Rights Council in 2010. Egyptian security services need to understand that their thuggery confirms the international image of Egypt as a police state, while Libyan security forces continue to dominate political space in Libya in an atmosphere of fear.”
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director
(Cairo, Egypt) – Egypt should revoke its draconian Emergency Law and revamp its abusive security forces as top priorities in 2010, Human Rights Watch said today in its comprehensive World Report 2010. Libya should free unjustly detained prisoners and reform laws that criminalize free speech and association, Human Rights Watch said.
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Egypt and Libya: A year of serious abuses of human rights
Human Rights Messengers Remain Particularly Vulnerable in Both Countries
“Both Egypt’s and Libya’s human rights records will come under intense scrutiny by the UN Human Rights Council in 2010. Egyptian security services need to understand that their thuggery confirms the international image of Egypt as a police state, while Libyan security forces continue to dominate political space in Libya in an atmosphere of fear.”
(Cairo, Egypt) – Egypt should revoke its draconian Emergency Law and revamp its abusive security forces as top priorities in 2010, Human Rights Watch said today in its comprehensive World Report 2010. Libya should free unjustly detained prisoners and reform laws that criminalize free speech and association, Human Rights Watch said.
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Tags: Abd al-Karim Nabil Suleiman, Abdelnasser Al-Rabbasi, abuse, arbitrary imprisonment, bloggers detained, Egypt, Egyptian security services, Emergency Law in Egypt, Fathi al-Jahmi, Hany Nazeer, Human Rights Watch report, Libya, President Hosni Mubarak, torture, unjustly detained prisoners
This entry was posted on January 25, 2010 at 8:26 pm and is filed under Commentary, Egypt, Human rights, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.