Egypt Responds to Human Rights Violations' Claims

Egypt expressed its regret over the 'blatant politicization' and 'unjustified escalation' at the Human Rights Council by countries, considering themselves have the right to evaluate others in order to obscure their ongoing violations of human rights.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Egyptian Permanent Mission at the United Nations (UN) Office in Geneva said that Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway are the most respectful of human rights, but upon the arrival of refugees to their lands they confiscated their property. In addition, their politicians compete in their racist tweets against Africans and Muslims, and their citizens desecrate the sanctities of Muslims without being counted.

"Despite the elimination of slavery, it is deeply rooted in American, British, Canadian societies, and non-white people are treated as second-class citizens," the statement added.

The statement also noted that countries such as Germany, Ireland, Austria, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands always call for freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration outside their homelands, yet when protests occur they have no room but force and unjustified violence, and they do not allow the organizers of the demonstrations to communicate with anyone from abroad.

Moreover, the statement added that Sweden, Luxembourg and other countries calling for good governance and the elimination of corruption are reluctant to return the smuggled money to their countries of origin.

"The Coronavirus pandemic revealed the weakness of social solidarity networks and health care in the Baltic countries, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, and others,"  the statement read.

Finally, the mission stressed that Egypt is doing its best to promote human rights, within the framework of its national vision, and in response to its citizens' aspirations, pointing out that 'whoever wants to cooperate with Cairo must stop following the destructive approach.'

It is worth mentioning that, a statement has been submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by Finland on 12 March as an attempt to interfere in Egypt’s domestic affairs.

The statement was signed by 31 countries, most of the European but also including the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. No Arab, African, or Asian country signed the statement.