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Eric Sottas of the World Organization Against Torture speaks about Cuba's UPR recommendation to China to repress more
By: Freeforall
Posted: Jun 20 09
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Regions: China, Cuba
Issues: Human rights defenders
Tags: china, Cuba, Human Rights Defenders
Eric Sottas, Director of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), speaks about Cuban government's recommendation to the Peoples Republic of China during its universal periodic review that it (China) increase its repression of human rights activists.
"The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), expresses its deepest concern about an extremely worrying recommendation that was included in the outcome report of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China, and which might be interpreted as encouraging the repression against human rights defenders."
"The Observatory is all the more concerned that China accepted a recommendation formulated by Cuba, according to which China should “maintain, in strict compliance of law, to avoid the impunity for people who are qualifying themselves as human rights defenders with the objective of attacking the interests of the state and the people of China”.
“This recommendation is unacceptable, and sends a very bad signal to Chinese human rights defenders who are strongly repressed on a daily basis due to their peaceful human rights activities, and as such is a flagrant violation of the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1998”, said Eric Sottas, OMCT Secretary General."
Resources
- CHINA: Adoption by the UPR Working Group of a recommendation encouraging the repression of human rights defenders
- Statement by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
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