Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), urged Saturday Egyptian government to adopt a quick strategy to deal with repercussions of resisting demonstrations on April 25 and storming the Syndicate of Journalists. EOHR advised the government to implement a series of recommendations, of which it put forward for the government in a report entitled: "Return to gagging mouths," Al Bawaba News reported. The Egyptian organization indicated in its report that there is a real crisis, which has two dimensions, the first is the right to peaceful demonstration guaranteed by international charters and conventions. Meanwhile, the second is freedom of opinion and expression, which are violated through penalties that deprive freedoms and rights of journalists because of their opinions and ideologies. The report pointed out that it is not reasonable that the state continue its policies aimed at depriving the right to peaceful demonstration and freedom of opinion, as well as expression, which represents a major violation of the rights and freedoms of citizens. Also, the report urged the state to review the legislations regulating those rights. The organization called upon the government to introduce new demonstration law that affirms the right of citizens to demonstrate and provides protection for citizens from security forces and mechanisms to disperse demonstrations. The EOHR advised the government to follow the international human rights standards in dispersing peaceful demonstrations, including the basic principles on the use of force and firearms by law enforcement officers. Additionally, the report stressed on the urgent need for the government to bring an end to the crisis, which surfaced between the Syndicate of Journalists and ministry of interior, after security forces stormed into the syndicate's headquarters to arrest two of its members.
