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<事件 No.SAU020508>

No.4051 サウジアラビア:政府批判をした大学講師が恣意的な裁判で有罪判決を受けました。

(ジュネーブ発 5月2日)

 SOSトーチャー国際事務局はサウジアラビアにおける以下の状況に関して引き続き皆様の働きかけをお願いします。

<事件の概要>

 SOS トーチャー国際事務局はSOSトーチャーネットワークメンバーであるアンテナ・インターナショナルなどの信頼できる情報筋より、メッカのウム・アル・クーラ大学の講師で心理学者のモハメド・アリ・アブ・ラジザー博士(60歳)が恣意的に逮捕され、その後むち打ちの刑の判決を受けたという情報を入手しました。

 情報によると、2008年2月初旬、モハメド・アリ・アブ・ラジザー博士はメッカで、美徳促進および悪徳防止委員会(CPVPV)職員に、女性との違法な密会で逮捕されました。アブ・ラジザー博士は逮捕後、様々な虐待を受け、CPVPVメンバーに3時間にわたって暴行された後、警察に引き渡されました。

 CPVPVはサウジアラビアの宗教警察であり、明確に規定されていない刑事犯罪で人を逮捕、拘禁、尋問できる権限をもっています。CPVPVの任務を定めた法律は非常にあいまいであり、「イスラムのシャリアで定められている宗教的義務を守るよう、人々を指導し、助言を与え、シャリアで禁じられている行為を防ぐ」とされています。この法律には、どのようなことをしたら、もしくはしなかったら罪になり、逮捕や捜査の対象となるのか、どれがCPVPVによる指導や助言に値する行為と見なされるのかは区分けされていません。

 2008年3月2日に、モハメド・アリ・アブ・ラジザー博士はメッカの第1審裁判所から、禁錮8ヶ月と3回に分けて行われる合計150回のむち打ちの刑の判決を受けました。この裁判で、裁判官はCPVPV側の報告や証拠のみを採用し、即刻起訴をして判決を言い渡しました。その上、アブ・ラジザー博士は証人を裁判に呼ぶ機会や自分に不利な証拠に反論する機会を与えられませんでした。また裁判所は、博士を陥れるためにCPVPVが仕掛けた女性を裁判に呼びませんでした。

 アブ・ラジザー博士の逮捕と判決は、彼がCPVPV職員の振る舞いと任務を批判していたからではないかと危惧されています。そのためCPVPVは、博士を侮辱し名誉を傷つけ、女性と面会させて博士を陥れようとしました。

 アブ・ラジザー博士は持病の糖尿病の薬を服用することを拒否されています。また家族や弁護士に面会できず、内容が分からない書面に無理やり署名させられました。また水を飲ませてもらえず、看守にトイレの使用を禁じられているということです。

 2008年3月31日、高等裁判所がアブ・ラジザー博士に対する第一審の判決を支持しました。

 2008年5月1日、アブ・ラジザー博士のむち打ち刑の執行の許可を求めるため、事件書類がメッカ知事のもとに送られました。サウジアラビアの法律によると、この手続きがこのむち打ち刑の実施に必要だということで、許可が出ると刑が実施されます。

 国際事務局は、アブ・ラジザー博士が虐待を受けたという報告および、拷問や虐待、品位を傷つける扱いや刑罰を禁ずる国際基準に違反していると考えられ、体罰であるむち打ち刑の判決を懸念します。

 国際事務局は、サウジアラビアが拷問及びその他の残虐な、非人道的な又は品位を傷つける取り扱いを禁じる「国連拷問等禁止条約」と「市民的及び政治的権利に関する国際規約 (ICCPR)」の締約国であることを指摘します。これらの条約のもとで負う責務に従い、当局は被害者による拷問と虐待の申し立てを真剣に考慮し、徹底的かつ公平な捜査を行わなければなりません。さらに国際事務局は、ICCPRの第9条(1)が「何人も恣意的に逮捕され又は抑留されない」と定めていることを指摘します。

<行動要請>

 サウジアラビア関係当局に以下の内容の要請をお願いします。

1.いかなる情況にあろうとも、アブ・ラジザー博士の心身の安全を保障すること。

2.弁護士や家族との早急な面会および必要な医療へのアクセスを保障すること。

3.国際法および国際基準に合致するような正当な嫌疑が不在の中、彼の即時釈放を命じること。もしそのような嫌疑が存在するなら、公正で資格のある裁判に彼を付し、その間、彼の手続き上の権利を保障すること。

4.責任者を特定し、裁判に付し、法に基づき刑事あるいは行政罰を適用できるよう、虐待の申し立てを含め、これら事件を徹底的かつ公平に調査するよう命じること。

5.アブ・ラジザー博士に適正な補償を保障すること。

6.国内法および国際人権基準にしたがって、国内全土における人権尊重と基本的自由を保障すること。

<要請先>

アブドゥラ国王: His Majesty King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud
The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques
Office of His Majesty the King, Royal Court
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Fax:+966 1 403 1185

ハリド皇子: His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al-Faisal
Governor of Mekkah al Mukaramah
Office of His Highness the Governor
Fax: +966 2 660 5242

国連大使: H.E. Abdulwahab Abdulsalam Attar
Ambassador, Mission of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Route de Lausanne 263
1292 Chambesy, Switzerland
Fax: +4122 758 0000, Email: saudiamission@bluewin.ch


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His Majesty King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud
The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques
Office of His Majesty the King, Royal Court
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Your Majesty King Abdullah,

I am writing you to express my concern about the arbitrary detention and sentence given to Dr. Mohammed Ali Abu Razizah who has been denied access to his lawyers, family members and an adequate medical treatment for his chronicle disease. I would like to urge you the followings:

1. To guarantee, in all circumstances, the physical and psychological integrity of Dr. Mohammed Ali Abu Razizah;
2. To guarantee immediate access to his lawyers, family and any medical assistance he may require;
3. To order his immediate release in the absence of valid legal charges that are consistent with international law and standards, or if such charges exist, bring him before an impartial and competent tribunal and guarantee his procedural rights at all times;
4. To order a thorough and impartial investigation into these events, notably the allegations of ill-treatments, in order to identify all those responsible, bring them to trial and apply the penal and/or administrative sanctions as provided by law;
5. To guarantee that adequate compensation is awarded to Dr. Mohammed Ali Abu Razizah;
6. To ensure the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms throughout the country in accordance with national laws and international human rights standards.

I thank you for your kind attention to my request.

Yours truly,

<以下、原文>

Case SAU 020508
Arbitrary detention / Corporal punishment / Ill-treatments

Geneva, 2nd May 2008

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in Saudi Arabia.

Brief description of the situation

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by a reliable source and Antenna International, a member of OMCT SOS-Torture network, about the arbitrary arrest of Dr. Mohammed Ali Abu Razizah, a 60 year-old psychologist and lecturer at the Um Al Qura University in the city of Mekkah, and his subsequent sentencing to flogging.

According to the information received, in early February 2008, Dr. Mohammed Ali Abu Razizah was arrested in Mekkah by agents of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), on the ground of being in an illegal solitude with a woman. Subsequent to his arrest, Dr. Abu Razizah was subjected to various ill-treatments and was beaten by members of the CPVPV for three hours before being handed over to the police.

The CPVPV is an authorised law enforcement religious police in Saudi Arabia, which is empowered to arrest, detain, and interrogate persons for undefined criminal offences. The law that defines the CPVPV's tasks is very vague as it includes "guiding and advising people to observe the religious duties prescribed by Islamic Sharia, to preclude committing acts proscribed and prohibited by Sharia". The law does not contain classification of which acts of commission or omission are criminal, meriting arrest and investigation, and which behaviour falls into the guiding and advising duties of the agency.

On 2nd March 2008, Dr. Mohammed Ali Abu Razizah was sentenced by the First Court in Mekkah province to eight months of imprisonment and to be flogged 150 times on three instalments. During his trial, the judge swiftly charged and sentenced him and only relied on the CPVPV reports and evidence. In addition, Dr. Abu Razizah was not given the opportunity to bring his witnesses before the judge and challenge the evidences presented against him, and the lady who was involved in his case by the CPVPV was not called by the court.

It is to be feared that Dr. Abu Razizah was arrested and sentenced because of his ongoing criticism of the behaviour and tasks of the CPVPV personals. The CPVPV would then allegedly have insulted him and damaged his reputation, before tricking him into meeting a woman.

Moreover, since his arrest, Dr. Abu Razizah has been denied access to his on-going medications, as he suffers from Diabetics. He has also been denied access to his relatives and his lawyer, and was forced to sign papers without being allowed to read or understand them. He was also denied dinging water and from using the toilet by the prison guards.

On 31st March 2008, the Court of Cassation upheld the verdict against Dr. Abu Razizah.

On 1st May 2008, Dr. Abu Razizah's case file was sent to the office of the Mekkah Province Governor for obtaining a permission in order to carry out the sentence of flogging against Dr. Abu Razizah. Indeed, according to the Saudi law, this procedure is needed in order tocarry out this sentence. Once the permission has been obtained, the flogging punishment will be carrying out.

The International Secretariat of OMCT is gravely concerned by reports of ill-treatments against Dr. Abu Razizah as well as by his sentencing to flogging, which is considered as a corporal punishment and is as such prohibited by international standards as it violates the absolute prohibition against torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.


To that extent, OMCT recalls that Saudi Arabia is a State party to the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which both prohibit cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. In line with their obligations under these treaties, it is incumbent on the Saudis authorities to consider seriously any allegations of torture and ill-treatment made by the victim, and to undertake a thorough investigation in this regard. OMCT also recalls to Saudi Arabia that according to article 9 1) of the ICCPR "no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention".

Requested Action

Please write to the authorities in Saudi Arabia urging them to:
i. Guarantee, in all circumstances, the physical and psychological integrity of Dr. Mohammed Ali Abu Razizah;
ii. Guarantee immediate access to his lawyers, family and any medical assistance he may require;
iii. Order his immediate release in the absence of valid legal charges that are consistent with international law and standards, or if such charges exist, bring him before an impartial and competent tribunal and guarantee his procedural rights at all times;
iv. Order a thorough and impartial investigation into these events, notably the allegations of ill-treatments, in order to identify all those responsible, bring them to trial and apply the penal and/or administrative sanctions as provided by law;
v. Guarantee that adequate compensation is awarded to Dr. Mohammed Ali Abu Razizah;
vi. Ensure the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms throughout the country in accordance with national laws and international human rights standards.

Addresses

- His Majesty King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, Office of His Majesty the King, Royal Court, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Fax: +966 1 403 1185
- His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, Governor of Mekkah al Mukaramah, Office of His Highness the Governor, Fax: +966 2 660 5242
- H.E. Abdulwahab Abdulsalam Attar, Ambassador, Mission of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Route de Lausanne 263, 1292 Chambesy, Switzerland, Email: saudiamission@bluewin.ch, Fax: +4122 758.00.00
- Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Brussels, 45 avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium, Fax: + 32 2 647.24.92, Email: beemb@mofa.gov.sa

Please also write to the embassies of Saudi Arabia in your respective country.

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Geneva, 2nd May 2008