مشاداة بين الرميد والرياضي في ندوة وطنية
مشاداة بين الرميد والرياضي في ندوة وطنية
عرفت الندوة الوطنية التي نظمت بأكادير من طرف ماستر “الإدارة، حقوق الإنسان والديمقراطية”، التابع لكلية الحقوق بجامعة ابن زهر، يوم السبت 13 يناير الجاري، مشاداة بين الحقوقية الحائزة على جائزة أممية خديجة الرياضي، ووزير الدولة المكلف بحقوق الإنسان، مصطفى الرميد، بعد أن نفى هذا الأخير معطيات أوردتها الرياضي في مداخلتها بذات الندوة.
ففي الوقت الذي كانت تتحدث فيه الرياضي عن السياق الوطني الذي أعلن فيه عن “خطة العمل الوطنية في مجال الديمقراطية وحقوق الإنسان”، حيث أشارت إلى أن المغرب صنف من طرف مجلس حقوق الانسان ضمن 29 دولة التي تعتدي على المدافعين عن حقوق الانسان، نفى الرميد والكاتب العام عبد الرزاق الروان هذا المعطى معتبرين أن هذا الكلام مجرد كذب.
وردا على الرميد عملت الرياضي على تعميم رابط إلكتروني قالت إنه “يؤكد كلامها بخصوص ترتيب المغرب بين الدول التي تعتدي على حقوق الإنسان”.
في نفس الصدد رفض الرميد وصف الرياضي، التي سبق لها أن ترأست “الجمعية المغربية لحقوق الإنسان”، (وصفها) لدستور المغرب بـ”الاستبدادي”، قائلا: “نحن نبني بلادنا، لقد قطعنا جزءً من المسافة لكننا لم نقطع المسافة كلها”.
وردا على خديجة الرياضي التي وصفت دستور المملكة بـ”الإستبدادي”، قال الرميد: “دستور المملكة دستور الانتقال الديمقراطي، نحن في حاجة إلى دستور آخر يجب أن نشتغل عليه، وهو دستور الديمقراطية الحقيقية، وأنا أقول دائما إننا لسنا دولة استبدادية، ولسنا دولة ديمقراطية، حتى عندما قالت جمعية فريدوم هاوس إن المغرب من الدول الحرة نسبيا، قلت نعم، لسنا دولة حرة تماما، ولسنا دولة غير حرة”.
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Report highlights rising reprisals against human rights defenders cooperating with the UN
GENEVA (20 September 2017) - A major new UN report warns that a growing number of human rights defenders around the world are facing reprisals for cooperating with the UN on human rights.
The report by the UN Secretary-General says individuals and groups have suffered reprisals and intimidation ranging from travel bans and asset-freezing to detention and torture.
“It is frankly nothing short of abhorrent that, year after year, we are compelled to present cases of intimidation and reprisals carried out against people whose crime – in the eyes of their Governments – was to cooperate with UN institutions and mechanisms,” said UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour, the senior UN official designated by the Secretary General to address the issue.
“We should see these individuals as the canary in the coalmine, bravely singing until they are silenced by this toxic backlash against people, rights and dignity – as a dark warning to us all,” Gilmour said, as he presented the report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“We are aware of cases where individuals we are communicating with have been abducted, detained, held incommunicado, or disappeared,” he added.
“There are also many cases involving prolonged arbitrary detention, as well as torture and ill-treatment, with some victims threatened, blindfolded and beaten. One case involved forcible psychiatric treatment; others have involved solitary confinement, sexual assault and rape in detention, against both men and women,” Gilmour said.
The report, the eighth of its kind, names 29 countries* where cases of reprisal and intimidation have been documented – significantly up on the previous highest number of 20. Eleven of the States are current members of the Human Rights Council. Some have featured in the annual report on reprisals nearly every year since it was instituted in 2010.
The cases are of “grave concern”, the report says, highlighting that many are perpetrated or condoned by State officials. Many other incidents go unreported due to fears of further repercussions, while details of some known cases have been withheld so as not to place victims at further risk.
“People engaging with the United Nations experienced intimidation, harassment, threats online and offline, derogatory media campaigns, travel bans, arbitrary arrests and detention, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment, disbarment, and dismissal from their posts, amongst other measures,” the report says.
“Beyond the grave impact on the life of persons concerned and their relatives, intimidation and reprisals also systematically undermine United Nations action on human rights and shake partners’ trust in the organization,” it adds.
All the cases highlighted in the report occurred from June 2016 to May 2017 and involved individuals and groups which have cooperated with UN human rights mechanisms, used UN procedures, submitted communications under procedures established by human rights instruments, or provided legal or other assistance to other people. It also covers families or supporters of victims.
Gilmour told the Human Rights Council that the report was by no means exhaustive and the problem was much more widespread.
“Since this report is limited to reprisals against people cooperating with the UN, the cases covered in it represent only a small portion of a far more generalized backlash against civil society and others challenging State authorities, especially human rights defenders,” Gilmour said.
He highlighted a number of recent cases which took place after the finalisation of the report, including that of Egyptian lawyer Ebrahim Metwally, detained at Cairo airport on 10 September en route to meet the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in Geneva, who was reportedly tortured and is still being detained. Allegedly a letter from the Working Group was itself included in the case filed against him.
Gilmour also noted that since June 2016 members of Bahraini civil society attempting to cooperate with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms have been interrogated, intimidated, subjected to travel bans, and even arrested or detained, causing an atmosphere of fear. Civil society representatives coming directly from Bahrain have significantly decreased over the last year, which is noted in the current session of the Council.
Gilmour also expressed deep concern over the ongoing situation of a Bahraini human rights defender, Ms. Ebtesam Abdulhusain Ali Alsaegh, who “has reportedly been beaten and sexually assaulted, and remains in detention”.
The report urges all States to stop reprisals, investigate existing allegations, provide effective remedies and adopt and implement measures to prevent recurrence. It says governments which have been challenged about the cases either did not reply or failed to address the concerns in the responses they provided.
The patterns of cases suggest some States have a strategy to prevent people cooperating with the United Nations on human rights, the report adds.
Assistant Secretary-General Gilmour was assigned to his role in October 2016 by the Secretary-General after the UN noted an alarming increase in the number of cases of intimidation and reprisals and decided a more comprehensive approach was needed to tackle the problem.
* Countries named in the report (in alphabetical order) are: Algeria, Bahrain, Burundi, China, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Honduras, India, Iran, Israel, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Venezuela.
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Read the report (A/HRC/36/31) online at:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session36/Pages/ListReports.aspx
For more information and media requests, please contact: Rupert Colville - + 41 22 917 9767 /rcolville@ohchr.org
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The report by the UN Secretary-General says individuals and groups have suffered reprisals and intimidation ranging from travel bans and asset-freezing to detention and torture.
“It is frankly nothing short of abhorrent that, year after year, we are compelled to present cases of intimidation and reprisals carried out against people whose crime – in the eyes of their Governments – was to cooperate with UN institutions and mechanisms,” said UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour, the senior UN official designated by the Secretary General to address the issue.
“We should see these individuals as the canary in the coalmine, bravely singing until they are silenced by this toxic backlash against people, rights and dignity – as a dark warning to us all,” Gilmour said, as he presented the report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“We are aware of cases where individuals we are communicating with have been abducted, detained, held incommunicado, or disappeared,” he added.
“There are also many cases involving prolonged arbitrary detention, as well as torture and ill-treatment, with some victims threatened, blindfolded and beaten. One case involved forcible psychiatric treatment; others have involved solitary confinement, sexual assault and rape in detention, against both men and women,” Gilmour said.
The report, the eighth of its kind, names 29 countries* where cases of reprisal and intimidation have been documented – significantly up on the previous highest number of 20. Eleven of the States are current members of the Human Rights Council. Some have featured in the annual report on reprisals nearly every year since it was instituted in 2010.
The cases are of “grave concern”, the report says, highlighting that many are perpetrated or condoned by State officials. Many other incidents go unreported due to fears of further repercussions, while details of some known cases have been withheld so as not to place victims at further risk.
“People engaging with the United Nations experienced intimidation, harassment, threats online and offline, derogatory media campaigns, travel bans, arbitrary arrests and detention, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment, disbarment, and dismissal from their posts, amongst other measures,” the report says.
“Beyond the grave impact on the life of persons concerned and their relatives, intimidation and reprisals also systematically undermine United Nations action on human rights and shake partners’ trust in the organization,” it adds.
All the cases highlighted in the report occurred from June 2016 to May 2017 and involved individuals and groups which have cooperated with UN human rights mechanisms, used UN procedures, submitted communications under procedures established by human rights instruments, or provided legal or other assistance to other people. It also covers families or supporters of victims.
Gilmour told the Human Rights Council that the report was by no means exhaustive and the problem was much more widespread.
“Since this report is limited to reprisals against people cooperating with the UN, the cases covered in it represent only a small portion of a far more generalized backlash against civil society and others challenging State authorities, especially human rights defenders,” Gilmour said.
He highlighted a number of recent cases which took place after the finalisation of the report, including that of Egyptian lawyer Ebrahim Metwally, detained at Cairo airport on 10 September en route to meet the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in Geneva, who was reportedly tortured and is still being detained. Allegedly a letter from the Working Group was itself included in the case filed against him.
Gilmour also noted that since June 2016 members of Bahraini civil society attempting to cooperate with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms have been interrogated, intimidated, subjected to travel bans, and even arrested or detained, causing an atmosphere of fear. Civil society representatives coming directly from Bahrain have significantly decreased over the last year, which is noted in the current session of the Council.
Gilmour also expressed deep concern over the ongoing situation of a Bahraini human rights defender, Ms. Ebtesam Abdulhusain Ali Alsaegh, who “has reportedly been beaten and sexually assaulted, and remains in detention”.
The report urges all States to stop reprisals, investigate existing allegations, provide effective remedies and adopt and implement measures to prevent recurrence. It says governments which have been challenged about the cases either did not reply or failed to address the concerns in the responses they provided.
The patterns of cases suggest some States have a strategy to prevent people cooperating with the United Nations on human rights, the report adds.
Assistant Secretary-General Gilmour was assigned to his role in October 2016 by the Secretary-General after the UN noted an alarming increase in the number of cases of intimidation and reprisals and decided a more comprehensive approach was needed to tackle the problem.
* Countries named in the report (in alphabetical order) are: Algeria, Bahrain, Burundi, China, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Honduras, India, Iran, Israel, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Venezuela.
ENDS
Read the report (A/HRC/36/31) online at:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session36/Pages/ListReports.aspx
For more information and media requests, please contact: Rupert Colville - + 41 22 917 9767 /rcolville@ohchr.org
Tag and share - Twitter: @UNHumanRights and Facebook: unitednationshumanrights
في ندوة حول “خطة العمل الوطنية من أجل الديمقراطية وحقوق الإنسان (2018 ــ 2021)” نظمها هذا اليوم ماستر ” الادارة ، حقوق الانسان ، الديمقراطية ” بجامعة ابن زهر باكادير وتمت في ENCG. تناولت الرفيقة خديجة رياضي بصفتها رئيسة “التنسيقية المغاربية لمنظمات حقوق الإنسان” خلالها موضوع السياق الوطني الذي أعلن فيه عن الخطة. ومن بين ما أشارت إليه أن “المغرب صُنف من طرف مجلس حقوق الانسان ضمن 29 دولة التي تعتدي على المدافعين عن حقوق الانسان”. وهي الحقيقة التي أثارت وزير العدل والحريات مصطفى الرميد والكاتب العام عبد الرزاق الروان مما جعلانهما ينكران الواقع ويقاطعانها بأن ذلك كذب.
ردحذفهذا وقد نشرت بعد ذلك المناضلة خديجة رياضي رابط “التقرير الاممي المعني من الموقع الرسمي للمفوضية السامية لحقوق الانسان” الذي يؤكد صحة ما قالته.
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وفي علاقة بالموضوع نشر موقع هسبرس أن مصطفى الرميد استهل مداخلته في الندوة بمخاطبة المناضلة خديجة قائلا: “لقد كنتِ في ضيافة المخزن”، قبل أن يحكي عن “رحلة شاقة نسبيا بسبب أحوال الطقس”، إذ أوضح أنه كان من المنتظر أن تصل الطائرة التي تقله إلى أكادير في منتصف الليل، إلا أن أحوال الطقس أرغمت الطائرة على الهبوط بمراكش. واستطرد الرميد متحدثا عن رحلته “كان من المنتظر أن نصل إلى أكادير في منتصف الليل، لكننا لم ندخل الفندق حتى السادسة والربع من صباح هذا اليوم. انتظرنا وقتا ليس باليسير بمراكش، ثم واصلنا الرحلة بالسيارة، وقد رافقتنا، أنا والسيد الكاتب العام، الأخت المناضلة الأستاذة خديجة (يقصد الرياضي) فقلت لها: أنت اليوم ضيفة عند المخزن”.
إذ بعد أن تناولت الكلمة في هذه الندوة، وهنأت الحاضرين برأس السنة الأمازيغية، وقالت إن هناك معتقلين يقضون رأس السنة الأمازيغية في السجن، كما قضوا فيه رأس السنة الإسلامية والمسيحية والعيد الكبير، عقبت على مصطفى الرميد، واصفة حديثه عن الرحلة التي جمعتهما بين أكادير ومراكش، في الساعات الأولى من صباح اليوم، بأنه “تكلم عن حاجة تفصيلية، شخصية وخاصة ولكن ما كملهاش“.
وأضافت خديجة الرياضي “صحيح، حدث مشكل أثناء سفرنا نحو أكادير، وجئنا من مراكش في سيارة، فقال لي السيد الوزير في السيارة إن المخزن كايكون مزيان بعض المرات، فقلت له: المخزن ماعمرو كايكون مزيان، فقال لي: حيت جيتي دابا على حسابو من مراكش إلى أكادير“.
وتابعت الرياضي سردها للقصة “فقلت له إننا جميعا جئنا على حساب الشعب، والمخزن نفسه يعيش على حساب الشعب”، قبل أن تخاطب الرميد تحت تصفيقات الجمهور قائلة: “لقد وقفتم عند ويل للمصلين، السيد الوزير، ولو لم تتحدث عن هذا الأمر، لما ذكرته أنا أيضا“.