Human Rights Day 10 December 2022
Dignity, freedom and justice for all
On Human Rights Day (10 December), UN Human Rights will launch a year-long campaign to promote and recognise the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR 75), which will be celebrated on 10 December 2023. The year-long campaign will showcase the UDHR by focusing on its legacy, relevance and activism using the slogan, “Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All.” # StandUp4HumanRights#.
Since the adoption of the UDHR in 1948, human rights have been more guaranteed and recognised around the world including improvements in the rights of women, children, and young people, and the abolition of the death penalty in many countries.
This anniversary falls on Egypt this year, and it is not only Human Rights that it has been violated, but also constitution, law, international charter. Shocking statistics of human rights violations in Egypt and the confiscation of their freedoms show the unprecedented decline in Egypt's human rights situation.
Tens of thousands of violations committed by the Egyptian Government have been monitored and documented, including:
First: 105 death sentences have been carried out in cases of a political nature, and 95 political opponents are awaiting execution at any time.
Second: 15,000 cases of enforced disappearance were monitored and documented during the period from July 2013 to the end of August 2022, 62 cases of them were documented during the disappearance.
Third: 1,134 detainees died of deliberate medical negligence in prisons and detention centres.
Fourth: 2000 women have suffered multiple violations, including imprisonment, indecent assault and dismissal from universities.
Fifth: More than 60 thousand citizens have been arbitrarily arrested, referred to extraordinary courts that lack minimum fair and fair trial standards. These courts handed down rulings contrary to Egyptian law, the Constitution and international conventions.
Sixth: Detainees in cells and detention centres are subject to violations such as overcrowding, prohibition of visits, and deprivation of exposure to the sun.
Seventh: The promulgation of a series of notorious laws; including the Law on Preventing Demonstrations, Shackling Private Action and Dismissal of Heads of Supervisory Bodies.
Eighth: Systematic and persistent torture and indignity of citizens in prisons and detention centres.
Ninth: Arbitrary detention for political symbols without legal basis, they have been imprisoned in Burj Al Arab prison and prevented to be visited for years, and many of them have died in prisons.
Tenth: Forced displacement and forced eviction of houses in Sinai and other areas within Egypt.
Eleventh: The Egyptian government arbitrarily arrested children for political reasons that have affected more than 3000 children over the past years.
Therefore, The El Shehab for Human Rights (SHR) demands:
First, the immediate release of political detainees in Egypt and the cessation of the Egyptian Government's arbitrary and indiscriminate arrests of its opponents.
Second, suspension of extraordinary and military trials and the consequent abolition of their sentences, especially death sentences.
Third, disclosure of the fate of the forcibly disappeared persons and their release.
Fourth, independent international commissions have to establish to investigate all crimes against humanity committed since July 3, 2013.
El Shehab for Human Rights (SHR)
London
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