[ 25/12/2010 - 08:03 AM ]
CAIRO, (PIC)-- Three rights groups in Egypt are calling on their government to disclose the number and details of Palestinians in the country's jails.
“They are currently suffering tough and inhumane conditions that violate the law, Egyptian constitution, and international conventions which Egypt had undersigned,” said the Shihab center for human rights, the Baladi association for the development of democracy, and the victims' human rights center in a statement they jointly released Friday.
Haytham Abu Khalil, director of the victims' rights center, told Al-Jazeera that Egypt has been deliberately arresting resistance fighters to use them as “leverage” in dealing with the Hamas government in Gaza.
The rights center has adopted an e-campaign with several more activists working to free all of the Palestinians, Khalil said. The site collects pictures of some of the detainees forced into Egyptian custody for years without charges.
Mohib Abud, head of the Baladi association for the development of democracy, criticized what he called irresponsible moves by the Egyptian government, and the continued detention of Palestinians without legal cause, and the torture they are exposed to.
On his part, Khalaf Bayoumi, the director of Shihab center, threatened he would file a suit against the Egyptian government in the international criminal court if the names and reasons of arrest of the Palestinian detainees were not released.
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