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EOHR issues a qualitative report on future parliament victims:
Calling the General Prosecutor to investigate in death incidents
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30/1/2006
The Egyptian Organization for Human Right (EOHR) issued on Monday (30/1/2005), a qualitative report entitled 'Future Parliament Victims' issued in twenty-five pages.
The report determines testimonials of 2005 parliamentary elections' victims, declared by kindred, lawyers and eye witnesses, in which EOHR delegated fact-finding missions in the Governorates witnessed the violence and trouble making; the Governorates are (Alexandria, Kafr Al-Sheikh, Al-Daqahlia, Damietta and Al-Sharqia).
Accordingly, eleven participants died arranged as follows:
1) Mohamed Khalil Ibrahim, [Alexandria Governorate];
2) Gomaa Saad al-Zeftawy, [Kafr Al-Sheikh Governorate];
3) Islam Ahmed Shihata, [al-Daqahlia Governorate];
4) Magdy Hassan Ali al-Bahrawy, [Al-Daqahlia Governorate];
5) Tamer Mahmoud Abdu al-Qamash, [Al-Daqahlia Governorate];
6) Al-Saeed al-Deghidy, [Damietta Governorate];
7) Ihab Saleh Ezz al-Deen, [Damietta Governorate];
8) Shaaban Abdu Abu Rabaa, [Damietta governorate];
9) Mostafa abdel Salam, [Al-Sharqia Governorate];
10) Mohamed Karam al-Taher Eliwa, [Al-Sharqia Governorate];
11) Mohamed Ahmed Mahdy Gazar, [Al-Sharqia Governorate].
According to statistics, the incidents witnessed 500 injured, while on 2000 parliamentary elections eight died and sixty-four were injured; stated according to first and second phase statistics, during which groups who carried the torch of violence were the supporters of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Independent and Muslim Brothers.
While on the third phase, security forces closed mainly 496 poll stations in different governorates to prevent supporters from casting their votes, immediately a clash happened between voters and security forces because they halted their right for political participation guaranteed by the Constitution and international human rights instruments, finally the fight led to gun fires and spreading tear gas all over, which led to eleven mortals and five-hundred injured.
On the other hand, 2005 parliamentary elections witnessed also the term 'pay for violence' which means paying money for committing violence, in which the candidates delegated armed forces holding cold steel and wooden sticks to put voters under control of the security forces.
The report ends with some recommendations to the General-Prosecutor calling for immediate investigation in the death incidents, and the Interior Minister to check out the officials responsible for the assaults and transfer them to the prosecution, in which Article 44 of Political Rights Initiation Law states 'officials practicing excessive violent instruments negatively affect the electoral or referendum process will be subjected to two years imprisonment if the mission wasn't fulfilled, while if the act was fulfilled the punishment will vary between two and five years'.
On the other hand, Article 48 of the same law states 'officials utilize violence to bolt citizens from casting their votes in elections or referendums, or force them to vote for a certain candidate will be imprisoned for six months, in addition to paying a bill varies between one thousand and five thousands'. In its report, EOHR calls again for jailing persons responsible for the death incidents and trouble makers who committed violence.
In addition, EOHR calls security apparatus to manage its role under the supervision of head authority of Public Committee for Elections - which is distinguished according to terms of Article 26 of Political Rights Initiation Law- in which it could protect the course of the electoral process both in and out the poll stations, to facilitate vote casting without restrictions, in order to prevent any attempts to discard the law's validity.
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