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On the occasion of holding international conferences to treat the effects of the economic crisis The impossible development in the Egyptian countryside
The poor and marginalized people of Rashwan estate in Beni Suef cry for help, stating that the police came to their homes at night and took them to the police station claiming that they trespassed on the property of the Endowment, but their grandfathers built their homes here since hundreds of years ago, how could the Endowment claim that they have trespassed on its property, which is their land and imprison them?
The village faces very bad conditions, the streets are full of birds despite the ban imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture because of the bird flu, there is no youth center or a family library, no school for the children or hospital to treat the patients, no pharmacy or even humane transportation, all the roads are narrow in many of the people die for many reasons, like road accidents, cancer, kidney failure, and hepatitis. Despite all of that, the Endowment requires them to pay monthly tolls to continue living in these inhumane houses and conditions.
Their lands were taken in 1997, the rent for one carat of land is 200 pounds, the government does not support farmers for fertilizer or pesticides or irrigation water, and big businessmen monopoly the production of meat and milk.
Children wonder, what rights do people talk about? They have no playgrounds and no other means for well-being, they just the police to stop arresting their parents every day. Their homes have no bathrooms, no clean water, bad ventilation and no means for a good life.
The officials at the Bank for Development and Agrarian Trust said that the farmers are stumbling over their loan payments to the bank, and they will be imprisoned for that.
When the LCHR lawyers presented these problems to the officials for an end to the farmers' imprisonment and eviction from their homes because they are human beings and Egyptians who have the right to live under the sky in this small area of land that does not exceed 50 meters, built of mud and brick and surrounded by four walls, which is called a house, and called for an end to the seizure of the money of the people, but the staff of the Commission, which claims the ownership of the village continue to chase them for several years now, although the court has issued rulings for their acquittal, stating their ownership of the lands and homes, as they have documents proving that.
Therefore, the Center presented complaints to the Attorney General and the Prime Minister on behalf of the farmers from Rashwan village to stop the implementation of the verdicts issued to their detention and the preservation of the records for their invalidity, and to guarantee their rights to security and adequate housing.
The LCHR sees that the institutions of the state have double standards, as they support the owners of the capital in large amounts of up to billions of pounds and deprive thousands of poor farmers from the exemption from tens of pounds, they also expose them to detention and displacement for the benefit of government agencies and large landowners.
Who is responsible for this amount of accumulation of underdevelopment and abuse .. How can all take our roles to stop the abuse against our people and improve their lives and the advancement of rural co.
There are many questions and we will submit claims to all of you non-government and government parties to change the values of the market and the profits and failed policies and a commitment to the application of new alternative values based on the protection of human rights and improve the lives of rural communities.
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