AFHR submits its report on Qatar’s claims to UN representative

Cairo – 15 September 2017: A delegation from the Arab Federation for Human Rights (AFHR) headed by the Federation chairman, Ahmed El Hamly, submitted its report, which refute the claims of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) in Qatar, to the chief of the National Institutions and Regional Mechanisms section in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Vladlen Stafanov, Sky News Arabia reported on Friday.

The AFHR released a report that expressed its strong dissatisfaction and condemnation of the report issued on June 13, 2017, by the NHRC, entitled "The First Report Statement: Regarding the Human Rights Violations as a Result of the Siege on the State of Qatar", the AFHR’s official website reported on June 29.

The report claims the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain have violated the most basic human rights during the period June 5-12, 2017, the AFHR report added.

But the AFHR expressed its rejection of the data, information and falsified facts included in the NHRC report, which is impartial, subjective and only reflects support of the Qatari political agenda, which supports radicalism and terrorism and undermines the security and stability of the region, the report stated. .

The report demands that the United Nations should reevaluate the performance and credibility of the NHRC — moreover, to check its methodology to make sure it does not act according to the international principles of human rights, Al Arabia reported on Friday.

To conclude, the AFHR confirmed that the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain are making significant efforts to meet their contractual obligations stipulated in various international and regional conventions. There have been no violations of human rights norms during the period of the boycott and the political crisis with Qatar. In addition, the three countries, by virtue of their sovereignty over their territories, have taken many preventive and protective measures to ensure their security and stability, as well as to ensure the protection of regional and global security in the face of extremism and radicalism, the AFHR stated.

The Arab Federation for Human Rights was officially founded during an event organized by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 21, 2015, which turned out to be the International Day of Peace. The establishment of the organization took place on the sidelines of the 30th UN Human Rights Council meeting, according to the official website of the AFHR.