Outrage of Arab tweets respond to video posted by HRW

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Thu, 07 Sep 2017 - 01:46 GMT

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Thu, 07 Sep 2017 - 01:46 GMT

Twitter Logo - Via Pixabay

Twitter Logo - Via Pixabay

CAIRO – 7 September 2017: On its Twitter account, Human Rights posted a cartoon video that has no documentation or proof, that was met with a wave of thousands of tweets expressing suspicion at these claims.

The video features drawings of several men being tortured with voiceover narration. The characters have names featured on them, Salem, Khaled, and Omar.

Twitter users responded to the suspicious report of Human Rights Watch, and comments have been made by publishing photographs of assaults undertaken by U.S. police officers on citizens in streets without that organization moving, or issuing a report about such assaults.

“What happens to the Rohingya Muslims,” Ali Albadri asked on Twitter: "I wonder if Rohingya are killed and they don’t get tortured as they claim in Egypt. What did you Human Rights Watch do for the Rohingya in Burma?”

Another tweet responded, "80,000 prisoners in Turkey... And 1,300 inmates are raped in American jails daily, especially African-Americans. You are not to be blamed; the Arab donkey who believes you is."

Another said: “How is the Lamb of Istanbul doing? Or is it because he is one of your sheep that you remain silent and turn a blind eye? What are the news on the funding you receive from the extreme left, Hillary [Clinton], and the terrorist brothers?”
Salwa Fouad tweeted on the cartoon video: "OK, but how can one be sure that this video is correct. This is not real, I mean it’s drawings and voiceover. Give a stronger thing than this for credibility."

Another said: “This is not real, you copy-pasted what America has done to Arabs in Abu Ghraib prison and you want a scenario like it. Liars and you will always be liars.”
A different tweeter questioned: “A suspicious Qatari-funded organization fancies the brotherhood... Let them be fair and decline their sources of funding and testimonies of their employees and their affiliation.”

Since many reports about Egypt were issued, one of the tweeters pointed out: “It is strange that an American organization every month is looking for a report or two about Egypt only… Aren’t you going to talk about the American laws against immigrants or about the millions of Iraqis and Afghans who were killed in 2001 and returned to the stone ages.”

A group of parliamentarians denounced on Thursday the Human Rights Watch allegations that torture and ill-treatment is carried out in Egyptian prisons, and called on the Egyptian government to internationally sue the Rights group.

The Rights group is ultimately aiming to enable the Muslim Brotherhood to reclaim presidency, said Alaa Abed, the chairperson of the Parliament's Human Rights committee.

For their part, the Ministry of Interior's prison sector service brushed off the HRW allegations of the ill treatment of the inmates in Egypt's prisons in a statement released on Wednesday, confirming the ministry's keenness to maintain and uphold the values of prisoners’ human rights.

The statement highlighted that the prison sector is seeing "an unprecedented development," adding that the ministry has corporate suitable, well-equipped facilities for specialty inmates in Wadi al-Natroun prison to ensure that they would receive all necessary medical care.

In addition, the statement contended that the ministry conducts periodic inspections of prisons, adding that the sector always ensures that prison transport vehicles are suited with air conditioners and that it is not crammed.

The Interior Ministry is taking it up a notch to improve the health care conditions of prisoners, as well as their physiological and mental health.

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