Human Rights Watch just released a new report on the dismal state of human rights in North Africa, with a big section on Egypt and another chapter on Libya.
In both authoritarian states, HRW found a pattern of arbitrary imprisonment and a lack of freedoms of speech and assembly. The group also called on Egypt to lift the state of emergency, now almost three decades in place, that allows the government to make sweeping arrests and to hold detainees without charge for indefinite periods. HRW chided Egypt for what the report called torture at the hands of state security services, and called for a revamping of its forces.
Egypt and Libya are just two of 90 nations and territories surveyed by Human Rights Watch for its World Report 2010, a 612-page report on human rights practices around the globe. You can see the full report here.
We know that human rights violations can and do occur in the most advanced democratic societies for one reason or another, so "watch" is a totally appropriate way to describe the organisation. Constant watchfulness is called for. But where what I would call a semi-democratic nation like Egypt is concerned, I feel some sympathy for Mubarak's government, which is under constant pressure from Islamist extremists intent - as they are in the rest of the world - in uprooting the established order. I know, I know - violations of human rights are intolerable wherever they occur. Nevertheless "horses for courses" until we live in a pefect world.
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