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On 10th
December, the International Day of Human Rights
Eritrea: An Unlimited
Disrespect of the Spirit and Wording of the UDHR
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The world celebrates on 10th of
December the Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Indeed, the UDHR is the founding document that
established human rights standards and on
which the subsequent development in this field
is premised.
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On this occasion, Suwera Centre for Human
Rights (SCHR) calls the attention of
the international community to the serious
violations of the spirit and wording of the
UDHR in Eritrea, the member state in the UN.
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The government of Eritrea violates the right
to life and liberty stipulated in article (3)
through opting to capital punishment without
trial and excessive use of killing power
without justification. Moreover, torture is
common in the prisons and detention centers
run by this government in a clear violation of
article (5), which prohibits torture.
Arbitrary arrest is practiced on a wide scale
in Eritrea as the government keeps thousands
of its citizens in prisons in unmistakable
breach to article (9) that bans arbitrary
arrest and exile. Yet, the government of
Eritrea don't respect other rights and
freedoms that guaranteed by the UDHR such as
the right to fair trial (article 10), right to
privacy (article 12), freedom of movement
(article 13), freedom of conscious and
religion (article 18), freedom of expression
(article 19), freedom of assembly (article 20)
and the right to participate in the
administration of public affairs through free
and fair periodic elections (article 21).
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Particularly, SCHR would like to call
the attention of the international community
to the catastrophic situation of arbitrary
detainees in the country. Some of those
detainees are in prison since 1992 and the
whereabouts of most of them are unknown.
Additionally, they are subjected to cruel
types of torture and inhuman treatment. Recent
information suggests that some of them have
died because of torture, lack of heath care or
detention in harsh conditions.
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SCHR calls upon human rights defenders,
human rights organizations worldwide and
Eritrean civil society groups to express their
solidarity with conscious prisoners in Eritrea
through exerting more pressures on the
Eritrean government to release them
immediately.
Suwera Centre
for Human Rights
10th
December 2006
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