SNA CHECHENPRESS, Official information section, June, 1st 2009
According to reports by a number of media and other sources several dozen Chechen citizens have been arrested by the immigration authorities of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
The arrests took place at night, without any warning or prior criticisms of the detained’ stay in Egypt. The arrests were marked by roughness and abasement of human dignity typical of Arab countries’ law enforcement agencies’ treatment of people, including their own citizens.
There has been no official explanation of the arrests from the country’s authorities leading to rumours and speculations and dealing an indisputable blow to the Egyptian leadership’s reputation.
Despite the fact that the abovementioned arrests and detention of the ChRI citizens have been generating many rumours, largely through the fault of the official authorities in Egypt, the ChRI Ministry of Foreign Affairs based on its own sources of information has protested to the official Cairo and demanded an immediate release of the detained.
Despite the fact that the majority of our compatriots have had access to study in Islamic universities with the direct participation of the Russian government and with the aim to achieve the so-called ‘social harmony’ which a colonial power seeks to establish in its territories, we cannot and we do not have a right to remain indifferent to the plight of our compatriots. We are expecting an official, legally substantiated explanation of their arrest in accordance with the international law.
We insist on the international law’s interpretation, as a matter of principle, because it is our earnest belief that the bitter experience has shown the existence of Islamic law in Muslim countries as no real guarantee of the impartiality of Islamic states’ official authorities in their dealings with Chechen citizens. A number of talentless statements by some politicians, marked by their intellectual servitude, are a case in point. They have repeatedly claimed Chechen involvement in fighting against the allied forces in Afganistan and Iraq but have not presented any proof in the form of a Chechen either killed in combat or arrested. The despicable attempts by the leader of Pakistan’s security services to excuse his own incompetence and inability to control his country’s territory by repeatedly claiming Chechen involvement in fighting on the side of the Taliban, are an example of lies, sheer incompetence and cowardice.
It is to our great regret that we have to quote these examples here but it would be a huge error on the part of Muslim countries’ authorities to interpret our silence as a sign of our indifference and our inability to defend our compatriots.
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