To: IFEX Autolist (other news of interest)
From: Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRInfo.net),
info@hrinfo.net
The following are excerpts from the weekly update from HRInfo.net:
The Weekly Update for HRINFO, no. 164, 1 June 2007 - 7 June 2007 Fourth year
Tunisia
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Arrests
The National Council for Freedoms (Tunisia) issued a press release statesthe horrible conditions facing the opinion prisoner "Mohammed Abbou" andmany other prisoners, victims of the Tunisian authority, held in the civil prison in Al-Kaf City, moreover, the annoyances practiced against his wifeand children during their visit.
More information about the release, please visit:
http://www.hrinfo.net/tunisia/cnlt/2007/pr0531.shtml
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) and theInternational Association for Protecting Political Prisoners issued twoseparate releases about the Tunisian journalist "Abdallah Al-Zawary" wholived for 16 years between prisons and exile and known among many ofdefenders of opinion prisoners as "Nelson Mandela of the Arab world". Thesituation describes the political injustice and violation of laws, whichreflects on the rights of defenders of principal freedoms and theopposition. In addition, all these practices work only for depriving theTunisian people from practicing their rights. The two organizations endedtheir releases by calling both Arab and international civil society to helpAl-Zawary to gain his freedom and return to his family in the Tunisiancapital.
More information about HRinfo's release, please visit:
http://www.hrinfo.net/en/reports/2007/pr0604.shtml
Sources
The National Council for Freedoms (Tunisia)
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo)
The International Association for Protecting Political prisoners
For more information, please visit: http://www.hrinfo.net/tunisia
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Morocco
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Arrests
A wide arrests campaign launched on the supporters of the Egyptian Association for Human Rights during a liability demonstration heldyesterday with the members of the association, arrested during the celebration of (Fateh May), the forces followed them in the streets andinside the houses, in which they are charged for "insulting divines".
Sources
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights
For more information, please visit: http://www.hrinfo.net/morocco
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International and Regional
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch separately issued two pressreleases denouncing the Egyptian government's decision to prevent humanrights organizations from monitoring the prosecution of 33 leading figuresin the Egyptian Muslim Brothers Group. The two organizations in theirreleases, describing the government's claiming that the civilians will havejust prosecutions before military courts.
Sources
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
For more information, please visit: http://www.hrinfo.net/mena
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The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
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Two lawyers of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo)visited the blogger Kareem Amer in Borg El Arab Prison in Alexandria, whowas sentenced to four years in prison in an opinion case. The visit was toexamine his well being and support him. HRinfo denounces the commissioner's decision of provisional detention against Amer for 65 days (since 4 Marchuntil 8 May 2007), although it wasn't a disciplinary decision andconsidered a violation to the law. The punishment was finished due to avisit done by Alexandria prosecution, in which it calls for treating Amerthe same way as the other prisoners. Being a member in Kareem's Amer'sdefense team, HRinfo declared the fact that Amer has no relation orcontacts with the donations collected by some groups (locally orinternationally) for his sake and he didn't ask for donations from personsor institutions.
More information about the release, please visit:
http://www.hrinfo.net/en/reports/2007/pr0531.shtml
More information about HRinfo's releases, please visit:
http://www.hrinfo.net/en/reports
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The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
HRinfo is a legal organization defends freedom of opinion, expression andpress and the right to exchange information moreover, it works oncollecting the publications of 18 Arabic human rights organizations inMiddle East and North Africa countries published in Arabic and presented inone website. It provides also human rights' sources in the Arab world formedia workers, journalists, activists and the public in an attempt toincrease the numbers of internet users and the interested in human rightsissues in the Arab speaking world.
More information, suggestions or membership in the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, please contact on HRinfo post address: second floor, flat 10, 5,105 St, Horriya Square, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt.
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