Published : 17-04-2016
Families of the Palestinian refugees, Fadi Sharief Hawarna, 47 years, and Alaa Abdulwahab Durgham, 24 years, renewed their appeal through the AGPS for the Egyptian authorities, the Palestinian embassy in Cairo, the human rights organizations, and institutions concerned with rights of refugees to work for the release of the two refugees from Al Qanater Egyptian prison, after being detained for about 20 months, without any trial or legal action.
The families confirmed that the medical status of Fadi Hawarna is getting deteriorated for the fact that he is a heart patient, especially under the inappropriate circumstances inside the prison, in addition to the large stress he suffers for being detained.
The father of the Palestinian refugee "Alaa Durgham" had confirmed earlier for the AGPS reporter "that Alaa and Fadi traveled from Syria to Egypt under an official entry visa on Thursday 10/07/2014, days after they tried to travel through the" sea boats "in an attempt to reach Europe but they failed. The Egyptian coast guards arrested them with a group of passengers, and a deportation ordered was issued within only 15 days.
The father of "Alaa" added that all States refused to give them visas, so they remained at "Shubrakheit" prison hoping that the United Nations High Commissioner will interfere to solve their problem.
Yet, 40 days later, and after all other prisoners were released, they lost hope, and were transferred on 02/14/2015 to a prison in the city of Ismailia.
Stressing that the Egyptian security transferred them to a prison in El-Arish on 03/11/2015 and tried to deport them to the Gaza Strip, but one of the UNRWA's officials in Jordan intervened, in addition to the non- approval of the authority of their entry in the Gaza Strip prevented the deportation.
After the attempt fails they were deported to Al Qanater prison in Cairo on 08/24/2015 to date.
Alaa's father also said that the Palestinian embassy in Egypt was unable to get the refugees out of the prison or to transfer them to any other European country, or even providing them some medicine and money."
For its part, the AGPS renew appealing the Egyptian Authorities, the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo, and the Human rights Organizations, especially Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and organizations concerned with the rights of refugees, mainly UNRWA and the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR), for working on the release of detainees; they are war refugees not criminals.
It is noteworthy that thousands of Palestinian refugees were displaced from their camps in Syria due to shelling, siege, detention, where more than 3206 victims died till the moment.
Families of the Palestinian refugees, Fadi Sharief Hawarna, 47 years, and Alaa Abdulwahab Durgham, 24 years, renewed their appeal through the AGPS for the Egyptian authorities, the Palestinian embassy in Cairo, the human rights organizations, and institutions concerned with rights of refugees to work for the release of the two refugees from Al Qanater Egyptian prison, after being detained for about 20 months, without any trial or legal action.
The families confirmed that the medical status of Fadi Hawarna is getting deteriorated for the fact that he is a heart patient, especially under the inappropriate circumstances inside the prison, in addition to the large stress he suffers for being detained.
The father of the Palestinian refugee "Alaa Durgham" had confirmed earlier for the AGPS reporter "that Alaa and Fadi traveled from Syria to Egypt under an official entry visa on Thursday 10/07/2014, days after they tried to travel through the" sea boats "in an attempt to reach Europe but they failed. The Egyptian coast guards arrested them with a group of passengers, and a deportation ordered was issued within only 15 days.
The father of "Alaa" added that all States refused to give them visas, so they remained at "Shubrakheit" prison hoping that the United Nations High Commissioner will interfere to solve their problem.
Yet, 40 days later, and after all other prisoners were released, they lost hope, and were transferred on 02/14/2015 to a prison in the city of Ismailia.
Stressing that the Egyptian security transferred them to a prison in El-Arish on 03/11/2015 and tried to deport them to the Gaza Strip, but one of the UNRWA's officials in Jordan intervened, in addition to the non- approval of the authority of their entry in the Gaza Strip prevented the deportation.
After the attempt fails they were deported to Al Qanater prison in Cairo on 08/24/2015 to date.
Alaa's father also said that the Palestinian embassy in Egypt was unable to get the refugees out of the prison or to transfer them to any other European country, or even providing them some medicine and money."
For its part, the AGPS renew appealing the Egyptian Authorities, the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo, and the Human rights Organizations, especially Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and organizations concerned with the rights of refugees, mainly UNRWA and the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR), for working on the release of detainees; they are war refugees not criminals.
It is noteworthy that thousands of Palestinian refugees were displaced from their camps in Syria due to shelling, siege, detention, where more than 3206 victims died till the moment.
