Chairperson of the NIHR meets Member of European Parliament
As part of the visit by NIHR’s delegation to Europe, Mr. Saeed bin Mohamed Al-Faihani, Chairperson of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), met HE MP Daniel Hannan, member of the European Parliament and representative of the Conservative Party in Britain, in his office at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
At the beginning of the meeting, Mr. Al-Faihani presented an overview of the NIHR since its establishment in 2009 as well as the developments that have taken place since then until the promulgation of the law of its establishment and the amendment thereof, which supported the independence of the NIHR and granted it more terms of reference and powers such as making declared and undeclared visits to reform and rehabilitation centers, and its role in monitoring the various organs of the State, ensuring the non-infringement of human rights and working to protect and reinforce those rights.
With regard to severing the diplomatic relations with the State of Qatar by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt, Chairman of the NIHR said that the issue is purely political and has to do with security rather than human rights, pointing out that the allegations raised by the National Human Rights Committee in the State of Qatar of human rights violations by the boycotting countries are untrue and irrelevant.
He added that the boycotting countries have taken into account the humanitarian cases of joint families in recognition for the brotherly Qatari people through the establishment of hotlines to handle such humanitarian cases, if any, and to facilitate their affairs with the aim to preserve the family fabric, and that the Qatari airspace is open and the Qatari people have the freedom to navigate in its regional water, the matter which refutes the allegation raised by the National Human Rights Committee in the State of Qatar of the existence of a blockade resulting in human rights violations.
