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  • Letter Regarding Arrests and Prosecutions of People Living with HIV/AIDS

    We are 117 human rights organizations based in 41 countries around the world, working in the fields of health and human rights. We write you urgently to voice concern over the arrest and trial of men in Egypt for alleged homosexual conduct, apparently based on men’s suspected HIV serostatus. We are concerned that medical personnel may have been complicit, or actively participated, in acts violating the international norm prohibiting torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. We are further concerned that the Ministry’s involvement with the detention and interrogation of suspects in these cases condones or gives credit to myths about HIV/AIDS, in a way that is incompatible with the Ministry’s public health responsibilities and can only contribute to the epidemic’s spread.

    Apr 6, 2008
  • Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism

    Human Rights Watch writes to urge Dr. Ihsanoglu to use his position as Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to support measures at the upcoming Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal on March 13-14 that would improve and strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism. In particular, the OIC should consider two amendments to the Convention to narrow its overbroad definition of terrorism and make absolutely clear that there is no sanction in Islam for deliberately attacking civilians, whatever the circumstances or justifications.

    Mar 11, 2008
  • Letter to Egypt's Minister of Interior General Habib al-`Adli

    Human Rights Watch sent a letter to Egypt's Minister of Interior, General Habib al-`Adli, on to express profound concern at reports this week that Egyptian border guards have once again shot and killed a migrant attempting to cross the border into Israel.

    Nov 13, 2007
  • Letter to Egyptian Minister of Interior Habib al-`Adli on the Deaths of Three Sudanese Nationals

    We are writing to express our profound concern at reports this week that Egyptian border guards killed three migrants who appeared to be Sudanese nationals in a particularly brutal manner.

    Aug 6, 2007
  • Letter to President Mubarak on the Death Sentence of the Convicted Taba Bombers

    We write to you with regard to the impending execution of Yunis Muhammad Mahmud `Alyan, Osama Muhammad `Abd al-Ghani al Nakhlawi, and Muhammad Jayiz Sabbah Husain.

    Jun 7, 2007
  • Letter to President Mubarak on the Sudanese Refugees in Cairo

    Human Rights Watch writes to the President of Egypt to express alarm regarding reports that the Egyptian government intends to repatriate 645 Sudanese demonstrators who were among those detained following the police assault in Mohandiseen in Cairo on December 30.

    Jan 3, 2006
  • Letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice about Department of State Comments on Egyptian Elections

    We are writing to express our astonishment at the statements yesterday by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack regarding state-inspired violence and irregularities in Egypt’s parliamentary elections.

    Dec 1, 2005
  • Letter to King Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud to commute the death sentence of Egyptian boy

    Human Rights Watch urges you to immediately commute the death sentence of Ahmad al-D., an Egyptian boy resident in Dammam, who was convicted for a crime committed when he was thirteen years old.

    Oct 26, 2005
  • Letter to His Excellency Ahmed Aboul Gheit on the death sentence of Egyptian boy

    We write to urge you to take immediate action to save the life of fourteen-year-old Egyptian national Ahmad al-D., resident of Dammam. A Saudi court sentenced him to death in July 2005 for the April 2004 murder – when he was thirteen years old – of his neighbor, three-year-old Wala’ `Adil `Abd al-Badi`, also an Egyptian citizen, in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

    Oct 26, 2005
  • UK: Empty promises can't protect people from torture

    Human Rights Watch and Liberty are deeply concerned about the British government’s stated intention to seek diplomatic assurances against torture in order to deport terrorism suspects to their home countries or to third countries where they would be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Human Rights Watch and Liberty consider returns on the basis of such assurances as incompatible with the international prohibition on the return of persons to countries where they face a risk of torture (nonrefoulement). We urge you to reconsider this fatally flawed initiative and immediately to halt any negotiations with countries of return regarding securing such assurances.

    Jun 22, 2005
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