But it is not just the developing countries that need to bewars sacrificing human rights in order to fight terrorism. A sub-regional meeting on "terrorism, anti-terror laws and human rights" has called for removing anti-terror laws in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
The two day meeting, looked into the anti-terror policies and their conformity with human rights in the Maghreban countries, noted that "terrorism definition remains vague," underlining the incompatibility between the anti-terror laws and the International Law and the international conventions and acts.
On the positive side, Egyptian jurist, Georges Abi-Saab deemed that the anti-terror measures in Morocco have not had a negative impact on the reforms launched in the kingdom. He added that international legal experts of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) held meetings with several Moroccan officials, through which they noted a Moroccan “resolve to keep on the reforms path…, which augurs well.”
Several international experts and jurists took place in this meeting, which is part of the project launched in 2005 by the ICJ to look into the conformity of the national anti-terror policies with the human rights principles. This project includes setting up a team of eight distinguished jurists that will examine "the impact of the anti-terror fight on human rights and state of law."
The team, which has a 18 month mandate, will listen, within the framework of a set of regional and sub-regional meetings, to testimonies of civil society representatives, lawyers, journalists, academics and governmental representatives, before elaborating a final report on this subject.
In a press conference, the participating human rights organizations also called for "putting an end to the emergency state in Algeria."
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