Die Menschenrechtslage im Nahen Osten ist gravierend. In mindestens zwei Ländern ist dringend ein Regime-Change angesagt.
Es folgen Auszüge aus dem Bericht von Amnesty International für das Jahr 2024, veröffentlicht im April 2025.
Ich habe vier Länder rausgesucht. Drei sind enge Partner der US of A sowie der Bananenrepublik Germäny:
Ägypten, Israel, Saudi-Arabien.
Das vierte Land ist der Iran.
Ich habe mir jeweils die fett gedruckte Zusammenfassung am Anfang jedes Landes durchgelesen und spontan das markiert, was mir am gravierendsten erschien. In den Auszügen, die ich hier reinstelle, markiere ich erneut fett, was ich darüber hinaus am schlimmsten finde.
Die Frage lautet: Gegen welches dieser Länder sollte zuerst Krieg geführt werden, um die Menschen von ihrem Leid zu befreien?
Meine Rangliste findet ihr unter den Auszügen, die ich nun in alphabetischer Reihenfolge dokumentiere.
Ägypten
Authorities released 934 prisoners held for political reasons but arrested another 1,594. Those targeted included journalists, lawyers, protesters, dissidents, opposition politicians and those critical of the government´s human rights record and handling of the economic crisis.
Dozens of individuals were subjected to enforced disappearance (!). Torture and other ill-treatment remained routine (!).
Death sentences were imposed, including for crimes other than "intentional killing", after grossly unfair trials. Executions were carried out. Impunity prevailed for grave human rights violations committed in 2024 and previous years.
Women and girls, religious minorities and LGBTI individuals experienced discrimination, violence and prosecution for exercising their human rights.
Iran
Women and girls, LGBTI people, and ethnic and religious minorities experienced systemic (!) discrimination and violence. Authorities intensified their crackdown on women who denied compulsory veiling laws, the Bahai community, and Afghan refugees and migrants.
Thousands were arbitrarily detained, interrogated, harassed and/or unjustly prosecuted for exercising their human rights. Trials remained systematically unfair.
Enforced disappearances (!) and torture and other ill-treatment were widespread and systematic. Cruel and inhuman punishments, including flogging and amputation (!), were implemented.
The death penalty was used arbitrarily, disproportionately affecting ethnic minorities and migrants.
Systemic impunity prevailed for past and ongoing crimes against humanity relating to prison massacres in 1988 and other crimes under international law.
Israel
Israel committed genocide in Gaza (!), including by causing some of the highest known death (!) tolls among children, journalists, and health and humanitarian workers of any recent conflict in the world, and deliberately (!) inflicting on Palestinians conditions calculated to bring about their physical destruction (!).
Armed conflict with Lebanon caused civilian deaths and mass displacement.
Israel committed the crime of apartheid, including through the forcible transfer and displacement of Palestinians both in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
State-backed violent settlers enjoyed impunity while conscientious objectors were imprisoned. Hundreds of Palestinians were killed (!) in militarized arrest raids in the occupied West Bank.
Thousands of Palestinians were subjected to arbitrary detention and to ill-treatment, amounting to torture in many cases. The International Court of Justice´s instructions to avert genocide (!) and end illegal occupation were ignored.
Saudi-Arabien
Saudi Arabia carried out executions for a wide range of crimes, including drug-related offences. Courts sentenced people to death following grossly unfair trials. Women continued to face discrimination in law and practice.
Meine Rangliste:
- Israel
- Iran
- Ägypten
- Saudi-Arabien
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