Published : 20-03-2016
Families of the Palestinian refugees “Fadi Sharief Hawarneh” 47-year-old, and “Alaa Abdulwahab Dirgham” 24-year-old who are prisoned in Egypt appeal for the human rights foundations and United nations high commission of refugees as well as the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo, to work on releasing their relatives from Egyptian prisons where they are detained for more than 18 months.
In details, Alaa’s father talked to the AGPS’s correspondent about the two men who entered Egypt using legal entry visas on 10 July 2014, few days later, they attempted to leave Egypt secretly riding immigration boats towards Europe but the coast guards arrested them together with the rest of migrants, and issued against them a deportation order within 15 days.
Because of their Palestinian nationality, they could not find any country to grant them entry visas, so they stayed under arrest in “Sherakhit” prison, aiming for the UNHCR to intervene and get them out.
40 days later, all of their fellow migrants were released except the two Palestinians who were transported to another jail in Al-Ismailiya region on 14 February 2015.
On 11 March 2015, the Egyptian security transported them again to another jail in Al-Arish region, tried to deport them to Gaza strip, but that did not happen because of not having PA permission to enter Gaza.
The Palestinian Embassy could not get them out or facilitate resettling them in any European country, Alaa’s father say. While the Solicitor Feras Hajj Yahya, who is following up the case, said “they are paying the price of holding Palestinian travel document, they have no other choice but to be sent back to Syria, which they strongly refuse”.
Yahya says “it is essential for the UNRWA and the UNHCR to do something and help solving this case, otherwise they will be involved in ignoring humanitarian cases, which is shameful to evade the responsibilities toward refugees fleeing the conflict and war zones” according to him.
The Solicitor assured that the two men has been detained for so long without charge or judicial ruling, apart from the illegal immigration attempt, which is not a real crime in cases of war victims.
Families of the Palestinian refugees “Fadi Sharief Hawarneh” 47-year-old, and “Alaa Abdulwahab Dirgham” 24-year-old who are prisoned in Egypt appeal for the human rights foundations and United nations high commission of refugees as well as the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo, to work on releasing their relatives from Egyptian prisons where they are detained for more than 18 months.
In details, Alaa’s father talked to the AGPS’s correspondent about the two men who entered Egypt using legal entry visas on 10 July 2014, few days later, they attempted to leave Egypt secretly riding immigration boats towards Europe but the coast guards arrested them together with the rest of migrants, and issued against them a deportation order within 15 days.
Because of their Palestinian nationality, they could not find any country to grant them entry visas, so they stayed under arrest in “Sherakhit” prison, aiming for the UNHCR to intervene and get them out.
40 days later, all of their fellow migrants were released except the two Palestinians who were transported to another jail in Al-Ismailiya region on 14 February 2015.
On 11 March 2015, the Egyptian security transported them again to another jail in Al-Arish region, tried to deport them to Gaza strip, but that did not happen because of not having PA permission to enter Gaza.
The Palestinian Embassy could not get them out or facilitate resettling them in any European country, Alaa’s father say. While the Solicitor Feras Hajj Yahya, who is following up the case, said “they are paying the price of holding Palestinian travel document, they have no other choice but to be sent back to Syria, which they strongly refuse”.
Yahya says “it is essential for the UNRWA and the UNHCR to do something and help solving this case, otherwise they will be involved in ignoring humanitarian cases, which is shameful to evade the responsibilities toward refugees fleeing the conflict and war zones” according to him.
The Solicitor assured that the two men has been detained for so long without charge or judicial ruling, apart from the illegal immigration attempt, which is not a real crime in cases of war victims.
