EOHR urges Sisi to release prisoners over opposing anti-protest law

Chairman of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) Hafez Abu Seda urged President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to release all peaceful protesters who were given imprisonment sentences over protesting Egypt's anti-protest law and did not commit any violence acts against citizens in accordance with the international human rights norms and the Egyptian constitution.

In a statement released on Tuesday, EOHR said it has recurrently demanded the release of the anti-protest prisoners, noting that it is necessary to give a margin of democracy and freedom of expression to people of opinion counting on the state's constitution and the relevant international conventions of human rights.

Abu Seda said: "The protest law contradicts with the commitments and agreements signed by Egypt as well as the essence of the new Egyptian constitution which has granted citizens the right to protest", pressing for the need for amending such law.

Releasing the youths detained under the controversial anti-protest law or the background of freedom of expression is part and parcel of honoring the generation of January 25 revolution who flocked to the streets to end the repression and corruption of the regime in 2011, he clarified.

Source: MENA