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Norwegian foreign minister Børge Brende defends his
country's human rights record in front of the United Nations on Monday:
Photo: Astrid Sehl/Foreign Ministry/NTB scanpix
Published: 29 Apr 2014 09:31 GMT+02:00
Updated: 29 Apr 2014 09:31 GMT+02:00
Norway's
human rights record came in for sharp criticism during a UN hearing on
Monday, with Saudi Arabia and Russia weighing in to highlight the
country's shortcomings.
Saudi Arabia
and other Islamic countries accused Norway of doing too little to
protect its Muslim minority, with Saudi Arabia calling for all criticism
of religions or their prophets to be made illegal.
Meanwhile, Russia accused the country of allowing extremist groups to
"operate freely" and of moving too quickly to separate children from
their parents.
Norwegian Foreign Minister
Børge Brende was in Geneva on Monday to respond to criticisms from no
fewer than 91 other country's during a session of the United Nations'
Universal Periodic Review, under which UN members take turns to go under
scrutiny.
Before Monday's hearing, Brende
conceded to Norway's NTB newswire that many of the countries collected
together to criticise Norway themselves hardly had spotless human rights
records.
"It is a paradox that countries
which do not support fundamental human rights have influence on the
council, but that is the United Nations," he said.
Human Rights Watch's latest report on Saudi Arabia noted that in 2012
the country had "stepped up arrests and trials of peaceful dissidents,
and responded with force to demonstrations by citizens."
"Authorities continue to suppress or fail to protect the rights of
nine million Saudi women and girls and nine million foreign workers," it
continued. "As in past years, thousands of people have received unfair
trials or been subject to arbitrary detention. The year has seen trials
against half-a-dozen human rights defenders and several others for their
peaceful expression or assembly demanding political and human rights
reforms."
The Netherlands and Italy
also criticised Norway for the long periods crime suspects spend in
police custody and pre-trial detention, with more than 40 percent of
those arrested spending longer than the 48 hour maximum recommended by
the United Nations.
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