(Read in Arabic)
We start by congratulating your Excellency on your election as Secretary-General of the United Nations and wishing you success in your difficult mission to retain the credibility of the United Nations and to maintain its independence.
The reputation of the United Nations deteriorated in the last few years and stood powerless and hesitant about the many problems and wars triggered by the United States and its allies, seriously damaging the principles of human rights under the headings of the fight against terrorism and distorted the principles of freedom, democracy and legitimized torture in more than one country, which constitutes a setback to all the achieved global rights movement.
Your Excellency Mr. Secretary-General,
The death penalty is one of the most egregious violations of human rights because it is anathema to the right to life, the United Nations should have the loudest voice against this crime even if such punishment happened against the dictatorship of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The condemnation of the death penalty against Saddam Hussein is not to defend him as a person but as a defense of humanitarian principles. He who deserves the most severe punishment for crimes committed against the Iraqi people, you shouldn't have hesitated to rapid and immediate condemnation of the death penalty in order to preserve the principles of the United Nations and the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Before you, Mr. Secretary-General, tasks and challenges which the defenders of human rights and anti-torture organizations are eager to, to rehabilitate the slogans of human rights, justice and democracy. We want from the United Nations and your Excellency to work diligently and resolutely to the closure of Guantinamo Detention Camp, this black page in the history of mankind, because this detention camp is affront to all humanity, and a condemnation not only of the United States of America but of the United Nations as well, which must raise the sound high to close this disgraceful detention camp against human dignity, for that the Journalist Sami Al-Haj, Al-Jazeera correspondent, declared a hunger strike after his arrest for a period of five years without charge and this is the first challenge facing your Excellency.
Second Challenge: There are 11000 Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian Detainees who are held as hostages in violation of all humanitarian and international laws, including 325 children, 125 women and about 30 detainees who are in arrest for over 30 years or less without any effective move to release them. The Israeli prisons do not differ from the Guantinamo prison, which imposes upon your Excellency to defend the human rights and to raise the voice high exerting the maximum pressure on Israel for the release of the Arab detainees in Israeli jails, especially women and children, the sick and old detainees.
Third Challenge: There are more than 20000 Arab detainees in the Arab prisons where torture is practiced against them in which their arrest is beyond all the international laws and they are considered to be missing in the silence of the world and its uncaring. The United Nations is required to maintain human rights and to pressure governments to respect these principles, and to release thousands of prisoners of conscience and human rights activists and journalists from the prisons, and to discover the fate of hundreds of Lebanese in the Syrian prisons, where their mothers are still in their sit-in for about a year and a half now in front of the United Nations headquarters in Beirut.
Fourth Challenge: For years, hundreds of political prisoners in Turkey declare fasting-till death to draw the attention of the world and the international community to their plight and many of them died in the Turkish prisons and the massacres committed against them without any action from any party. The Turkish prisons are just like the Israeli, the Arab and Guantinamo Prisons where human dignity is being trampled.
Fifth Challenge: It is the issue of thousands of Iraqi and Arab detainees in American prisons in Iraq from the Abu Ghraib prison to the other, where the outrages and the gross violations of the rights of detainees are committed without serious accountability to the American Administration and the Iraqi government associated in Iraq.
Sixth Challenge: Is what has been much talked about, the secret prisons in Europe and the use of airports, many of these countries, which claim to be democratic, smuggling of prisoners and detainees.
The issue of secret prisons in Europe must be denounced and investigated in order to preserve the credibility of the slogans of democracy and human rights.
Many challenges face your Excellency, from Darfur issue to the suffering of the Palestinian people to the issue of Iraq, and the development, poverty and sectarian conflict to the rest of the many problems in the world, but what we would like to emphasize about in our letter to your Excellency is to work on the rehabilitation of the principles of human rights and against torture and the closure of Guantinamo detention camp and the release of thousands of political prisoners in Israeli, Arabic and Turkish, American and European Prisons.
13/01/2007
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