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How Egypt weaponizes counter terrorism laws to target human rights defenders
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Céline Lebrun Shaath, prominent human rights defender and wife of arbitrary imprisoned Palestinian-Egyptian human rights defender Ramy Shaath, with a poster calling for his release. Free Ramy Shaath, https://www.freeramyshaath.com/ Egyptian human rights defenders and UN experts examine how authorities in Egypt have weaponized counter terrorism laws to target activists and human rights defenders, and measures the international community can take to investigate the country s grave human rights violations.
This statement was originally published on cihrs.org on 28 June 2021.
An online event on Egypt was held on the sidelines of the 47th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council) featuring Egyptian human rights defenders and UN experts, including the UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism.
NGOs urged to advance right to development By CHENG SI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-06-29 09:00 Share CLOSE A trainer shows volunteers how to dress hair at an NGO incubator park in Jinan, Shandong province. [Photo Provided To China Daily]
NGOs have become a strong force in channeling greater efforts to push forward the right to development, experts and representatives from international NGOs said on Monday.
Speaking at an online event running parallel to the ongoing 47th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, they also urged NGOs worldwide to provide assistance to their governments and multiply the effect and impact of development.
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COLOMBO • Sri Lanka s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has pardoned a murderer closely linked to the ruling Rajapaksa family, even as 16 men linked to the Tamil Tiger rebels were also pardoned.
The pardon of the rebels last Thursday is a first for people connected with the Tigers since Mr Rajapaksa came to power in 2019 on a nationalist agenda, which included a promise that troops who crushed the rebels would not be prosecuted.
The 16 men were convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) that gives security forces sweeping powers to arrest and detain suspects. The United Nations Human Rights Council and other international rights groups have called for it to be repealed.