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EOHR issues its final report on the Sudanese Refugees late crucial crisis
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8/1/2006
On Sunday the 8th of January 2005, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) issued its major report on the Sudanese Refugees late crisis events; the report entitled 'the Sudanese Refugees swing between the violence of the Interior and the protection of the Refugees Commissariat' stated in thirty-five pages.
The report determines the crisis details held in (29/12/2005), it begins with a background on the primary progress and the series of violations corresponded the crisis, stating security forces' excessive use of force to disperse the refugees peaceful sit-in, the citizens who declared their testimonials on the violent assaults, a legal background on the refugee's conditional status in the Egyptian Constitution and according to international human rights instruments, then the United Nations High Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Cairo and its description to the crisis and its legal stance of the late Sudanese Refugees in particular and the refugees in general, and finally the Sudanese Refugees status in Egypt and their population.
The report's final notion ends with some recommendations to the Egyptian government, the (UNHCR) office in Cairo, and also the Sudanese government, in addition to some references; the names' list of the arrested, dead and the absents, the British researcher's testimony - in the American University in Cairo- on the incidents of dispensing the refugees' sit-in, a copy of EOHR's statements and releases posted to both Interior and Foreign Affairs Ministries; with the details of the whole incident and EOHR demands, a copy of the President of the Republic's approval decree on the refugees convention stating their right to form a private sector for refugees in the Egyptian Foreign Affairs Ministry, then the copy of the covenant (1951) signed between Foreign Affairs Ministry and the (UNHCR) office in Cairo, and finally the (UNHCR) statistics on the refugees population in Egypt, ends with April 2004. N.B. the complete version of the report scheduled in EOHR's website: www.eohr.org
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