{"id":622,"date":"2012-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA\/EGYPT: Concerns over threats against Mr. Abdulkarim Rihawi, President of the Syrian Human Rights League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paris-Geneva,  June 13, 2012. <em>The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders,  a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and  the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), is deeply concerned about the  series of anonymous death threats received by Mr. Abdulkarim Rihawi in relation  to his human rights activities.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From June  11, 2012 in the evening to June 12 in the afternoon, Mr. Rihawi received 5-6  threatening phone calls from unidentified individuals who accused him of being  an agent, a spy for the West and a traitor of the nation. The callers told him:  &ldquo;<em>how dare you accuse Bashar of being a criminal? You are the criminal<\/em>&rdquo;.  The caller also used another Syrian expression which means that he &ldquo;<em>won&#8217;t  live more than &quot;them&quot;<\/em>&rdquo; (&ldquo;them&rdquo; referring to the supporters of  Syrian President Bashar El-Assad). It has not yet been possible to identify the  origin of the calls.<\/p>\n<p>These  threats occurred after Mr. Rihawi, who is currently in exile in Cairo, Egypt,  appeared on <em>Al Jazeera Arabic<\/em> on June 11, to speak about a communication  that was sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by his own organisation  as well as by another Syrian organisation, The Hague Center for the Persecution  of Criminals against Humanity in Syria, on the continued widespread and systematic  human rights violations that have taken place in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The  Observatory expresses its deepest concerns about the death threats received by  Mr. Rihawi, which are directly related to his human rights activities. It calls  on both the Syrian and Egyptian authorities to comply with Article 1 of the  1998 United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which states that  &ldquo;everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to (\u2026)  strive for the protection and realisation of human rights (&#8230;) at the national  and international levels&rdquo;, as well as Article 12.2 of the same Declaration,  which provides that &ldquo;the State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the  protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually and in association  with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure  adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action&nbsp; (&#8230;)&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The  Observatory further calls on the Egyptian authorities to carry out an  immediate, thorough, effective and impartial investigation into the above  mentioned acts, the result of which must be made public, in order to identify  all those responsible, bring them before a civil competent and impartial  tribunal and apply to them the penal sanctions provided by the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris-Geneva, June 13, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders<\/p>\n<p>From June 11, 2012 in the evening to June 12 in the afternoon, Mr. Rihawi received 5-6 threatening phone calls from unidentified individuals who accused him of being an agent, a spy for the West and a traitor of the nation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}