The recent report on the Arab human rights
Regional, Politics, 7/14/2004

The recent report of the Arab human rights organization disclosed the deterioration of human rights in the majority of the Arab states in addition to the notable recession in the basic rights and public freedoms.

The report described the promises of the Arab governments and regimes to making political, economic, social and cultural to enhance political and civilian freedom as remaining " voices without milling." The report attributes this to the continued emergency laws which veil constitutional and legal guarantees for citizens and that many Arab states expanded in imposing more laws which restrict freedoms like terrorism- fighting laws, money laundry laws and tightening criminal laws.

The report monitored the existence of violations that led to narrowing the margin of public freedoms like continued special trials and bringing civilians to military courts and continued armed conflicts.

The report, which tackles with the status of human rights in the Arab states during 2003 until the first quarter of 2004, deplored what it called the attempt of the United States to deprive the right of the Arab peoples to choosing their governments and building their own political systems freely.

The report highlights human rights conditions in each and every Arab state separately. It indicated that the emergency law has been valid for the 23rd running years in Egypt, while there is still shortage in withstanding torture and the lack of health care in the Egyptian jails and detention center and that more than 9,000 Islamists are still held.

The report also monitors the Egyptian government banning of peaceful demonstration and banning the licensing of active people's societies active in the area of human rights, restricting the right to party enrolment and limiting the call only to be by the President of the republic for maintaining a dialogue with the parties to draw agendas for a dialogue between the ruling party and certain opposition political parties.

The report document some 42 torture cases in prisons that resulted in the death of the prisoners since 2000, with 15 cases in the period which is covered by the report.

The report also monitored 30 compulsory disappearance, according to the documents of the Egyptian organization for human rights and also the exposition of several journalists to several imprisonment sentences in 2004 despite the decision taken by the President of the republic on February 22 to abrogate sanctions depriving freedoms in issued on public opinion and publication.

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