FNs Højkommissær for Menneskerettigheder mener, at præsidentens udvidelse af sine magtbeføjelser strider mod grundlæggende FN-konventioner, som Egypten ellers forlængst har skrevet under på.
GENEVA, 30 November 2012: The top United Nations human rights official Friday called on Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to reconsider a Constitutional Declaration he issued last week, saying parts of the measure conflict with international human rights law.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said that the Declaration put Egypt at risk of reneging (svigte) on binding principles laid down in two overarching international human rights treaties – the International Covenant (konvention) on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
“The three slogans of the Egyptian Revolution were liberty, freedom and social justice,” Ms. Pillay wrote in a letter, which she sent to Mr. Morsi on Tuesday, according to the Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
“These same principles underlie all international human rights law,” Ms. Pillay added.
Kritikere: Han vil stå over loven
Mr. Morsi, who became Egypt’s first elected president in June after the 2011 fall from power of President Hosni Mubarak, set off a political crisis in the North African country when he issued the Declaration last Thursday.
While Mr. Morsi said the decree would enable him to safeguard the country’s transition to a constitutional democracy, his critics reportedly accuse him of seizing a broad swath of powers that rendered his office free from judicial review (stå over loven).
The President later moved to quell the crisis by meeting with senior judges and political parties.
While OHCHR said Ms. Pillay welcomed those efforts, she added they were “not yet sufficient” to prevent the country from missing the mark on its obligations to the two Conventions, which Egypt ratified in 1982.
Mr. Morsi has said he intended the decree to be temporary, and contends that it was mainly aimed at preventing Mubarak-era judges from dissolving the country’s Constituent Assembly (grundlovsgivende forsamling), which has been writing a new Egyptian constitution.
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