Egyptian authorities banned a human rights activist from traveling

 EOHR is deeply concerned as Mr. Naser Amin; a lawyer and the Secretary General of the Arab Center for the Independence of Judiciary and Legal Profession. On Friday, December 13, 2002 Mr. Amin was heading to Amman, Jordon to participate in the Regional Conference of Experts on the “The International Criminal Code and the Arab world”; The conference that was organized by the Strategic Studies Center at Amman University. Mr. Amin was astonished to be told that he was banned from travailing without clarifying the reason behind this. 

Noteworthy is that this is Mr. Amin first time to be prevented from traveling. He has participated in many regional and international conferences as a representative of the Arab Center For the Independence of Judiciary and Legal Profession as well as a public coordinator for the Arab Alliance of establishing the Criminal Court and as a member of the International Criminal Syndicate.

As EOHR expresses its deep concern of such ambiguous decision, it demands the Egyptian authorities to urgently take the necessary steps to abolish it. EOHR affirms that this incident represents a blatant violation to the right to the freedom of transportation and in contradiction with article 41 of the Egyptian constitution which affirms that individual freedom is a natural right; the free movement is a core individual freedom. Also, this incident breaches article 12 of the International Covenant on the Civil and Political which grants the liberty of movement to every one.