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| Human Rights Watch Report |
| (2012-01-23) |
| Last updated: 2012-01-24 15:49 EET |
In its annual report on international human rights, the International Organization Human Rights Watch has called on democratic countries to support the Arab Spring protests against totalitarian regimes.
The files on CIA’s secret prisons, the support for the democratic progress in the so-called “Arab Spring” protests and the criticism targeting the democracy in Russia are the main highlights in the 2012 annual report of the Human Rights Watch International Organization. Romania is one the countries that have so far failed to establish its involvement in the program of the CIA secret detention centers in Eastern Europe, alongside Lithuania and Poland. The document stipulates that little progress has been made in clarifying the alleged complicity of certain European governments with the CIA’s secret program aimed at retaining and torturing alleged terrorists in their secret units.
Lithuania has brought its investigation to a halt, while a similar investigation in Poland produced inconclusive results. Romanian authorities have repeatedly denied any involvement in the program, despite recent evidence made public by the press, as to the exact location of a former CIA secret prison in the capital-city Bucharest. As regards the people’s uprisings in the Arab World, Human Rights Watch has called on Western governments to abandon their support for totalitarian Arab governments in the name of social stability in the Middle East and to help combat Islam and terrorism and secure oil supply channels.
The international organization has challenged the US and EU’s reluctance to take action against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and the absence of “real pressure” to prevent Bahrain authorities from repressing riots. Human Rights Watch has also expressed its concern regarding China and Russia’s support provided to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in the people’s uprising in Syria. Moreover, the organization has also criticized the reluctance of several democracies, such as Brazil, India and South Africa, to take part in the development of democracy in other parts of the world.
The document also issued a warning regarding the frailty of democratic progress made in Arab countries where people’s revolts have led to the demise of the totalitarian regime. The report also insists on ending the climate of impunity in these regions, where security forces and government officials must resist “the temptation to resort to the former regimes’ corruption, violence and abuse”. The Human Rights Watch report has also condemned the organization of legislative elections in Russia, as well as Vladimir Putin’s decision to run for a third mandate at the head of the Russian state. Human Rights Watch believes that Putin’s reinstatement in Kremlin will stop “necessary political reform”.
Moreover, Russian authorities are criticized for breaching human rights on several occasions in Northern Caucasus and limiting freedom of expression and association. Furthermore, several hundreds of families living in the vicinity of the region Sochi were expropriated and evicted in order to make way for the construction of sports venues and other infrastructure necessary to host the 2014 Olympic Games in Russia.
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