(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is an EOHR press release: Cairo: April 16, 2003 EOHR Issues An Urgent Appeal: Release Anti-Iraqi War Activists Now EOHR regrets the ongoing attitude of security forces toward the right to peaceful assembly and the people who choose to exercise this right. Demonstrators continue to get arrested as they protest the […]
(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is an EOHR press release:
Cairo: April 16, 2003
EOHR Issues An Urgent Appeal: Release Anti-Iraqi War Activists Now
EOHR regrets the ongoing attitude of security forces toward the right to peaceful assembly and the people who choose to exercise this right. Demonstrators continue to get arrested as they protest the war in Iraq.
The journalists’ syndicate had a peaceful assembly on April 12, 2003 demonstrating its disdain for the American-led war in Iraq and Israeli measures taken against Palestinians. Security forces arrested Mohamed Hassan Hassan, Omar Abdel Latif and Waleed Abd El Razek. In addition, Ramez Gehad Fathi Abdel Aziz was arrested at 5:00 p.m. while he was at the El Horaya Café in Bab El Louk, Cairo. He was at the café attending to his duties as editor for the newspaper International News and yet was arrested merely for being in the same place as the demonstrators. Journalists Ibrahim El Sahari and Wael Tawfeek were also arrested, the former at his home and the latter while demonstrating with the journalists’ syndicate.
EOHR is deeply concerned about the arrests of peaceful demonstrators by security forces. We call on authorities to disclose their whereabouts and immediately release them, in compliance with the Egyptian constitution and international human rights laws, which guarantee the right to the peaceful expression of opinion.
