Enforced disappearances is a big crime against human rights but the security forces in Egypt insisted to commit against students is provisions of domestic and international law that criminalize it, and perhaps the state of “Mahmoud Mohamed Zarea” student at the Faculty of Engineering Department of Urban Planning at Cairo University, the biggest proof of this, they have been kidnapped sixth of October City on Sunday, 08/09/2015, and the security forces took him to an unknown to any of his family or his lawyer who filed many of the communications and telegraph to the Attorney General and Ministry of Interior without response.
What happened to the student is a clear violation of the second paragraph of Article I of the International Convention for the Protection of Persons from Enforced Disappearances, which stipulates that: “it may not be invoked in exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability, or in any case an exception the other, to justify enforced disappearances “.
As well as article 54 of the Egyptian Constitution which states: ” Personal freedom is a natural right, shall be protected and may not be infringed upon. Except for the case of being caught in flagrante delicto, it is not permissible to arrest, search, detain, or restrict the freedom of anyone in any way except by virtue of a reasoned judicial order that was required in the context of an investigation, every person whose freedom is restricted shall be immediately notified of the reasons therefore; shall be informed of his/her rights in writing; shall be immediately enabled to contact his/her relatives and lawyer; and shall be brought before the investigation authority within twenty four (24) hours as of the time of restricting his/her freedom.’
Comments