اعتقال نشطاء مجتمع مدني من ابناء دارفور بالخرطوم

Quote: Activists without Protection or Rights in Arab World The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists has received with deep concern the acts of violations against human rights activists in the Arab countries, who have been subjected to series of arrests and physical torture, psychological abuse and limitation of freedom of opinion and expression so as to restrict freedoms in the country. In Yemen: The human rights defender Tawakoul Kerman, Director of Journalists without Frontiers Organization, has been arrested and detained for three hours at a police station. At the meantime, the defender Bushra Ababi has been beaten by four security men and referred to the Republican Hospital in Sana'a, in addition to more than 35 people from Al Gaashen have been subjected to harassment and death threats on the hands of Yemeni police and finally, they were forced to leave the Al Gaashen governorate on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. The Arab Program regards what was done by the Yemeni police is a clear violation to Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which stipulates that "Everyone has the right to freedom of participation in peaceful gatherings". In Morocco: The Moroccan Ministry of Communication issued a decision on Friday, October 29, 2010 to pause the activities of Al-Jazeera channel, claiming its deviation of the hard and responsible work, despite the fact that Al Jazeera is one of the channel that covers all ongoing events and reflects all views. The Arab Program condemns the act of the Ministry as a violation of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In Egypt: The Egyptian security forces has detained on Sunday October 31, 2010 the journalist Abdul Galil Sharnoubi, Editor of the Website "Brothers Online", immediately after his returned from a business trip. This is a part of the series of arrests targeted number of political and media figures ahead of the parliamentary election. In Sudan: The Sudanese authorities have pursued and arrested on Saturday October 30 eight human rights activists, members of the Democratic Darfur Committee which is relevant to the violations and genocides against the people of Darfur. The Arab Program condemns the prosecution and harassment of security against the members of the Committee and confirms the violation of the behavior of security to the articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights particularly, Article 7 on the right to bodily integrity and Article 9 on the prohibition of arbitrary detention.