About (16) human rights organization demanded the Egyptian authorities to immediately release all Palestinian Syrian detainees in its prisons without any charges, despite the decisions of the Attorney General about releasing them, to implement its  international legal obligations, and to put an immediate end to the arbitrary detention of refugees.
The organizations also stressed in its statement on the need to drop all deportation decisions issued, raising the strictures imposed on the procedures for obtaining a visa to Egypt for Syrian citizens, and to allow the UNHCR to practice its protective role to include the Palestinian refugees.
The Egyptian Attorney General dropped the charge of illegal entry for the Syrian and the Palestinian refugees detained in the police department of Karmouz, who are estimated with 56 refugees, as he ordered their release on 5th of November 2014, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior has issued a decision to deport them, but they’re still, after more than a hundred days of detention without charges, in Karmouz Police Department.
The statement stressed that with the absence of any new orders from the Attorney General -or any official written explanation, the arrest is considered directly inconsistent with the Egyptian law, which is at the same time depriving them of the grievance about their arrest.
As the statement pointed out that Article 31 of the United Nations Convention of 1951 -regarding the refugees’ situation- prevents the states from detaining the refugees because of their entry or their illegal presence.
It is worth mentioning that the Egyptian authorities arrested the mentioned group in 1st of November 2014 after leaving Turkey by boat on 23rd of October 2014 in order to reach Europe, where refugees have been left on Nelson Island, 4 km north of Abu Qir area, Alexandria, after a dispute between the smugglers.
Among the currently detained in Karmouz Police Department, there are 15 minors 7 of them less than 10 years, and one baby (10 months), which is violates local and international child protection such as materials 94 and 112 of the Egyptian Child Law No. 12 of 1996 law, as amended by Law No. 126 for 2008 in addition to the Rights of the Child of the United Nations Convention.