Yesterday The National Council for Human Rights held, its regular meeting under the chairmanship of Mohammed Faiq president of the council, and in the presence of Abdul Ghaffar Shukr, Vice President of the Council, Ambassador Mokhles Qoutb Secretary-General, and members of the Council.
The meeting discussed with deep concern sectarian incidents that took place in the province of Minya, and the preliminary results of the fact-finding mission dispatched by the Council to the province regarding this matter, the discussions pointed to the steady increase in sectarian incidents in specific areas in the country, whether because of worship buildings disagreements or social frictions, and one of the Council member estimated that ten incidents occur monthly.
The Council said in a statement today: the Council observed that authorities resort to customary solutions that come in the usual for the benefit of the most powerful groups and sometimes confer to the displacement of some citizen from their villages and homes, and the Council stressed on the need for law enforcement to confirm the right of citizenship.
And The Council decided to prepare a detailed memorandum with all the findings and studies of the fact-finding missions to submit it to the President of the Republic and authorities competent to deal with this problem.
