Twenty-eight Journalists in Six Governors Formed Informational "lobby" to Defend Issues of Human rights.

29-2-2008

Maat center ended yesterday, Friday 29 February, the training of twenty-eight journalist from different national, party, private, and regional newspapers in six governors; Cairo, Giza, Al Dakahlia, Alexandria, Amenia, and Asyoot, to teach them ways of informational neutral covering for issues of prisoners, detainees, and their families. This was in the frame of a project aimed at spreading culture of social peace, rejoining families of prisoners and detainees inside society, omitting causes of their isolation, and remove causes of spreading violence between them.

Mr. Ayman oqeel, the center's administrator, said that informational role in neutral covering for issues of prisoners and detainees will not develop without good preparation for those who are interested in issues of human right. They need serious and sufficient courses to make them aware of these issues, trained them for the informational tackling of these issues under lights of international charters, agreements, and international announcements that support rights of marginal sectors. Oqeel asserted the success of the experience of training juridical editors to form journalist "lobby" to defend issues of these marginal families inside informational organization and to distinguish these issues from other papers of their journals. "The center is ready to adopt efforts of trained journalists to publish juridical irregular pamphlet entitled "The Shout" interested in showing issues of families of prisoners and detainees, the idea that suggested by the attended trainers", he announced.

Dr. Esam Abd Allah, philosophy professor at Ain-Shamns University, said, during the training workshop, that 37% of prisoners and detainees are from unorganized places that threatened the society with high levels of crime if its development is neglected. He also refused blockading juridical and informational work in Egypt by more laws, calling at the same time for more informational neutrality in tackling juridical issues, and do not exploit it politically. Dr. Sami Al Shreef, information professor in Cairo University, supported this opinion when he called for more transparency and seriousness in the system's dealing with issues of freedoms in the Arab world. He also said that it is important that journalists and reporters should deal seriously with these issues. Mr. Magdy  Helmy, deputy of editor-in-chief in Al Wafd Newspaper, called upon attended  journalists for more informational pressure for the benefit of prisoners' and detainees' issues, he also asked them to show the role of written information in habilitating them inside society, rejecting violence between them to achieve the idea of social peace.

 

At the end of the course, attendances recommended for forming informational-juridical alliance to defend issues of families of prisoners and detainees, and that journalists of this alliance will affect their journals whatever its policies and situations were. They also recommended for adopting issues of marginal sectors without informational distinguish for others. They also asserted the importance of creating conversation between juridical organizations supporting families of detainees and prisoners, editorial boards for journals supported these sectors around the importance of organizing repeated campaigns talk about these issues. In addition, they called for starting the first Arab juridical channel to talk about marginal sectors' issues, victims of detention and abuses. Finally, they asserted the importance of making a juridical pamphlet interested in issues of families of prisoners and detainees, rehabilitating them especially those who are released and who need job opportunity.