SATIRICAL INDIGENOUS BLOGGER ARRESTED AND INTIMIDATED FOR SOUNDING THE ALARM ON THE NEFARIOUS MAFIOSO PRACTISES ON SINT MARTIN.

Above Judith Romou the satirist and blogger, who was arbitrarily detained in a manner not consistent with international norms and standards, governing such. She was accused among other things of, stalking, slander et.al and a host of false charges. Slander is making false statements about an individual; the statements that she made against the person’s in question are based in fact. Leroy De Weever publicly attacked Romou, during the course of her work and broke her camera, this callous wanton act for which he should have been arrested, was witnessed by several onlookers since it took place in public in Phillipsburg. Romou is the one who was arrested. The class “injustice”, that is practised on Sint Maarten is not acceptable and should no longer go unpunished.

 Leroy De Weever.  De Weever who stands well over six feet is the perpetrator of the heinous, vicious, brutal attack on the diminutive Romou who is barely five feet and is autistic why is he not in prison? De Weever tried to typify Judith Romou’s work, as stalking since she is required to follow person’s in conjunction with her work, in order to question them. If a person does not wish to make a statement, simply indicating such verbally will suffice. Leroy De Weever,  was in direct violation of the laws below, and as such violated the fundamental human rights of Judith Romou. The Public Prosecutor on Sint Maarten violated the rights shown below as defined by the UN Human Rights Declaration, in that it allowed the office to be used by person’s, out of the so called upper classes as a means of intimidating Judith Romou. Her computer equipment, hand held devices and all other material related to her work as a “blogger” ,freelance photographer and videographer were illegally seized by the police department, along with her passport all of these illegal actions are subject to prosecution by the International Criminal Courts in The Hague. Romou’s rights below as per the UN Human Rights Commission.

To gather all relevant information, wherever it may occur, relating to violations of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, discrimination against, threats or use of violence, harassment, persecution or intimidation directed at persons seeking to exercise or to promote the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including, as a matter of high priority, against journalists or other professionals in the field of information.

Theo Heyliger the politician, whose family historically, has been quite cosy with, figures who are sketchy to say the least and some, who like Francesco Corallo has been called an important person in the Sicilian mafia by the authorities in Italy.   

Heyliger, Corallo and an unidentified individual. Any politician/politicians publicly associating with sketchy character’s will always have a cloud hanging over their heads.

Mister sketchy Francesco Corallo above aka quote “an important person in the Sicilian mafia”, end quote, person’s of his ilk is needless to say an impediment to the attainment of full fledged independence and they will be rooted out, in the future through the use of the laws internationally that governs such. The case for the independence of Sint Martin must be fought in the UN, as the people on the island are being exploited, by oligarchs and a bourgeoisie that is enriching itself to the detriment of the poorer classes. The recent brazen daylight attempted robbery of Oro jewellers that ended in the death of police officer Benjamin; purportedly he was killed by a so called “rapper”, who went by the moniker “Kilo Gotti”. As I have indicated in many articles in the past and now, the Caribbean has imported forms of American gang culture. Urban American gang-culture has been made acceptable, through the clever marketing of the elite in Hollywood. Gang culture is now hip and cool globally. With local politicians hobnobbing with person’s called, “Mafioso”, in their country it sends a perverse message, that gullible person’s have and will continue to use as an excuse to justify their illegal actions. Mister sketchy Francesco Corallo above aka quote “an important person in the Sicilian mafia”, end quote, person’s of his ilk is needless to say an impediment to the attainment of full fledged independence and they will be rooted out, in the future through the use of the laws internationally that governs such. The case for the independence of Sint Martin must be fought in the UN, as the people on the island are being exploited, by oligarchs and a bourgeoisie that is enriching itself to the detriment of the poorer classes. The recent brazen daylight attempted robbery of Oro jewellers that ended in the death of police officer Benjamin; purportedly he was killed by a so called “rapper”, who went by the moniker “Kilo Gotti”. As I have indicated in many articles in the past and now, the Caribbean has imported forms of American gang culture. Urban American gang-culture has been made acceptable, through the clever marketing of the elite in Hollywood. Gang culture is now hip and cool globally. With local politicians hobnobbing with person’s called, “Mafioso”, in their country it sends a perverse message, that gullible person’s have and will continue to use as an excuse to justify their illegal actions.

Arbitrary detention: UN expert group to discuss over 30 cases from 21 countries

GENEVA (31 August 2015) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is meeting in Geneva from 31 August to 4 September 2015, to discuss over 30 cases of alleged deprivation of liberty from 21 different countries.

The expert group will also focus on the upcoming presentation to the Human Rights Council of the new ‘UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on Remedies and Procedures on the Right of Anyone Deprived of their Liberty by Arrest or Detention to Bring Proceedings before Court’.

The Principles which cover almost all situations of detention and all groups and individuals, including the most vulnerable, will become a key instrument in international human rights law to promote and protect any person from secret detention; prolonged incommunicado detention, enforced disappearances; and torture. The Working Group will present these Principles at the upcoming session of the Human Rights Council, when it also plans to organize a side event on 15 September 2015.

The Working Group has further plans to meet with representatives of States and civil society organizations to discuss various issues related to its mandate.

Last April, the Group’s five independent experts adopted 21 Opinions during its 72nd session held. These Opinions concern various individuals from different

 countries. During 2014, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention adopted under its regular procedure, 57 Opinions concerning the detention of 422 persons in 30 countries. It also transmitted a total of 138 urgent appeals to 48 States concerning 435 individuals.

The 73rd session of the Working Group will be held in private at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Palais des Nations.

(*) The Working Group is comprised of five independent expert members from various regions of the world. Its Chair-Rapporteur is Mr. Seong-Phil Hong (from the Republic of Korea). Other members of the Working Group are: Mr. José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez (Vice-Chair on Communications, from Mexico); Mr. Sètondji Roland Adjovi (Vice-Chair on Follow-up, from Benin); Mr. Vladimir Tochilovsky (from Ukraine) and Ms. Leigh Toomey (from Australia).

The Working Group was established by the former Commission on Human Rights in 1991 to investigate instances of alleged arbitrary deprivation of liberty. Its mandate was clarified and extended by the Commission to cover the issue of administrative custody of asylum-seekers and immigrants. On 26 September 2013, by its resolution 24/7, the Human Rights Council extended the Working Group’s mandate for a further three-year period. Learn more, log on to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Detention/Pages/WGADIndex.aspx

The Working Groups are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures’ experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.

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Violence and arbitrary detention against journalist and or bloggers not bought by the, “corporate” media on Sint Martin is also on the rise, as can be attested to by the arrest and illegal detention of satirist Judith Romou. In Sudan it is abysmal as I will show in the following: “GENEVA (27 August 2015) –  “The frequency of attacks and violence committed against journalists and media workers in South Sudan is increasing, and has reached a critical level,” two United Nations human rights experts warned today.

The UN Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression, David Kaye, and on extrajudicial executions, Christof Heyns, condemned the latest killing of a South Sudanese journalist, the seventh so far this year.

On 19 August 2015, Peter Moi, who worked for various newspapers and media outlets in South Sudan, was shot dead in Juba by two unidentified assailants as he made his way home from work. Earlier in May, James Raeth, a radio journalist based in Aboko, was also killed in an attack by unknown perpetrators.

Three days prior to Mr. Moi’s killing, President Kiir had reportedly threatened journalists and media workers at a news conference and declared that freedom of press does not mean that they may work against their country”. In this the 21^st century there is no place for the arbitrary detention of media workers, in a place i.e. Sint Martin, that is subject to the laws of the EU, which means that the jurisprudence as laid down in the Human Rights charter of the United Nations does apply here legally, contrary to the thinking of certain dumb police and prison worker’s, who tried to a mockery of me when I was illegally detained, for taking up a case against (illegal and arbitrary police detention against my person). I was told by the police that “Human Rights”, does not exist on Sint Martin, I have a news flash for you, you just have not been introduced to it as yet. Keep attempting to harass me I will introduce you to it! The police force on Sint Martin seems to be populated, by buffoons and miseducated individuals, who think that they are the law, that type of thinking, is being degraded and rooted, as I will bring all acts, perpetrated upon me or any other media worker on the island before, the International Courts in The Hague.   The following is from the United Nations Human Rights: Office of the high Commission for Human Rights.

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established by resolution 1991/42 of the former Commission on Human Rights. Its mandate was clarified and extended by Commission’s resolution 1997/50. The mandate was extended for a further three-year period by resolution 24/7 of 26 September 2013.

(a) To investigate cases of deprivation of liberty imposed arbitrarily or otherwise inconsistently with the relevant international standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or in the relevant international legal instruments accepted by the States concerned;

(b) To seek and receive information from Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and receive information from the individuals concerned, their families or their representatives;

(c) To act on information submitted to its attention regarding alleged cases of arbitrary detention by sending urgent appeals and communications to concerned Governments to clarify and to bring to their attention these cases;

(d) To conduct field missions upon the invitation of Government, in order to understand better the situations prevailing in countries, as well as the underlying reasons for instances of arbitrary deprivation of liberty;

(e) To formulate deliberations on issues of a general nature in order to assist States to prevent and guard against the practice of arbitrary deprivation of liberty and to facilitate consideration of future cases”.

(f) To present an annual report to the Human Rights Council presenting its activities, findings, conclusions and recommendations.

Furthermore, the Human Rights Council encourages the Working Group in fulfilling its mandate:

(a) To work in cooperation and dialogue with all those concerned by the cases submitted to it, and in particular with States that provide information which should be given due consideration;

(b) To work in coordination with other mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, with other competent United Nations bodies and with treaty bodies, bearing in mind the role of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in such coordination, and to take all necessary measures to avoid duplication with those mechanisms, in particular regarding the treatment of the communications it receives and field missions;

(c) To carry out its task with discretion, objectivity and independence.

Special Rapporteur: on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

A Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the Human Rights Council to examine and report back on a country situation or a specific human rights theme. This position is honorary and the expert is not United Nations staff nor paid for his/her work. The Special Rapporteurs are part of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council.

For more on Special Rapporteurs, please refer to Fact Sheet N° 27: Seventeen Frequently Asked Questions about United Nations Special Rapporteurs.

Historical Background

In 1993, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights established the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

After replacing the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council decided to extend the mandate for another three years in its resolution 7/36 of March 2008. The mandate was renewed again in March 2011 for a further period of three years (HRC resolution 16/4).

On 27 March 2014, the Human Rights Council extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for a further period of three years (resolution 25/2).

David Kaye has been appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression in August 2014.

Mandate

The Special Rapporteur is mandated by HRC resolution 7/36: 

(a) To gather all relevant information, wherever it may occur, relating to violations of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, discrimination against, threats or use of violence, harassment, persecution or intimidation directed at persons seeking to exercise or to promote the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including, as a matter of high priority, against journalists or other professionals in the field of information;

(b) To seek, receive and respond to credible and reliable information from Governments, non-governmental organizations and any other parties who have knowledge of these cases;

(c) To make recommendations and provide suggestions on ways and means to better promote and protect the right to freedom of opinion and expression in all its manifestations; and

(d) To contribute to the provision of technical assistance or advisory services by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to better promote and protect the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

 

 

 

 

Working methods

In the discharge of his mandate the Special Rapporteur:

a) Transmits urgent appeals and letters of allegation to Member States on alleged violations of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. The Special Rapporteur summarises these communications as well as replies received from Governments in an annual report submitted to the Human Rights Council (See Individual Complaints).

b) Undertakes fact-finding country visits.

c) Submits annual reports covering activities relating to the mandate to the Human Rights Council and to the General Assembly (starting in 2010 for the latter).

In light of the above anyone on Sint Martin, who was arbitrarily arrested, in conjunction with (Freedom of Expression), as Judith Romou was arrested, were illegally detained as per International Jurisprudence.