US EditionEgypt Must Halt Lengthy Arbitrary Detention of Govt Critics: UN
UN High Commissioner Volker Turk denounces Egypt's use of 'rotation' to indefinitely detain critics by bringing baseless new charges, affecting activists and journalists since at least 2017.
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UN chief calls on Egypt to end arbitrary detentions under “rotation” system
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Egypt on Tuesday to end its controversial “rotation” practice which allows authorities to arbitrarily extend prison sentences beyond their maximum term. Rotation is typically used to persecute perceived political opponents such as activists, protestors, lawyers, and journalists and involves charging a prisoner with a new offense when they are about to be released, extending their prison term indefinite…
Egypt must halt lengthy arbitrary detention of govt critics: UN
Egypt must end a practice allowing the prolonged arbitrary detention of government critics, the United Nations human rights chief said Tuesday. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk slammed a common practice in Egypt in which authorities bring new charges against individuals when they are about to complete their prison sentences or as they reach the maximum legal period of pretrial detention, preventing their release. "The Egyptian g…
Cairo - Arabic Jerusalem: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on the Egyptian authorities today to put an end to the practice of arbitrarily detaining government critics for long periods, even after serving their sentence or completing the maximum pretrial detention.
According to Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, this system has become a preferred tool of the Egyptian government of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, to repress "those who are perceived as critics or political opponents." Lawyers, human rights defenders, journalists, activists and ordinary peaceful demonstrators regularly pay the price. […]
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