Human rights in Creeperopolis

Human rights in Creeperopolis are a topic of concern and are considered to be one of, if not, the worst in the world, often being used to compare the human rights statuses of Lyoa, Rakeo, and Sequoyah. Several nations have previously condemned the human rights record of Creeperopolis and several resolutions within the Terraconserva Council of Nations have been presented regarding human rights in the country. The Creeperian government enforces Levitical law which has caused several international organizations to denounce the government as violating basic human rights.

Foreign organizations have stated that there is virtually no freedom of speech or the press in the country, despite being legally protected by the Constitution. The only legal media providers are those approved by the Creeperian government which show "blind loyalty" and support of the government, such as the Gaceta Creeperiano and Noticias de la'Iniciativa. The only media outlet considered to not be "blindly loyal" and supportive the government is the Quebecshirite-owned Poste du Port headquartered in Puerto Francisco, which itself is considered to be the most developed place in Creeperopolis. Some groups have stated that Puerto Francisco is the only place in the entire country where human rights are actually enforced. According to Human Rights Terraconserva, there are around 250,000 prisoners incarcerated in prison camps across the country for political reasons and that they are subject to forced labor, torture, experimentation, and execution.

Foreigners of certain nationalities, specifically those from Greater Sacramento, Malgax, Sequoyah, and Terranihil, are strictly monitored by the Creeperian government as they have been considered "high-risk lawbreakers," likely for political, racial, and religious reasons. Natives of Creeperopolis have not reported many instances of human rights violations, either because the government does not mistreat its civilians that "fall in line" or because they are afraid of the consequences for speaking out against the government's actions. The most notable critic of the government which has documented the country's human rights violations is Orlando Hernández Alvarado, a journalist who founded the El Faro newspaper who lives in exile in Barreiganca, Greater Sacramento. He currently has a warrant for his arrest, has been charged with treason, and has been sentenced to death in absentia. The government maintains its position that criticism of its human rights record is a pretext for overthrowing the imperial government.

History of human rights in Creeperopolis

Formation of the notion of human rights

• Top left: The Sohaq Massacre of 1248
• Top right: Miguel I's Reign of Terror
• Bottom left: Torture of Islander Natives
• Bottom right: The Honduran Genocide

Human rights as a concept in Creeperopolis began to formulate during the First Parliamentary Era from 1565 to 1771. Prior to the establishment of the Parliament following the Surian Revolutions of 1565, the notion of human rights effectively did not exist as actions which would be classified as atrocities in the present were widespread and considered normal. Events like the Battle of Xichūtepa, Creeperian Crusade, Siege of Almadinat Almuqadasa, and Honduran Genocide witnessed massive death tolls, most of which were committed intentionally as acts of genocide and ethnocide. Even in the Captaincy General of the San Carlos Islands, atrocities were committed against Native populations during the period known as "The Enslavement" from 1392 until 1477.

Such atrocities were not punished, and at times, even encouraged, to instill intimidation in any opponents of the kingdom to prevent attacks or uprisings. Such attacks and uprising were not always intimidated into now occurring, however, as several revolts occurred in southern Creeperopolis and in the San Carlos Island colony against their rule, particularly for their brutality and the atrocities they committed. Such uprisings and revolts lead to even greater and worse atrocities, which lead to more revolts, which spiraled into a cycle of revolts and massacres. Notable rebellions that were the result of atrocities, which lead to more atrocities, include the Deltinian War, the Great Revolt of Esclaveta, and the Creeperian Peasants' War.

Massacres continued throughout the rule of Miguel V. Many of Creeperopolis' most infamous massacres occurred during his reign either as a part of the Twenty Years' War, such as the Panchague Massacre, or through the Honduran Genocide. During the Honduran Genocide, approximately 1.2 million ethnic Hondurans were killed. The genocide is considered one of "most successful" genocides, as very few people are descendants of the Hondurans that once were the majority population of the department of San Miguel where the Kingdom of Honduras existed from 1289 until 1360.

When the First Parliament was established on 8 March 1565, one of the priorities of the Liberal Party was the establishment of laws regarding what they called "crimes against the natural state of man," later to be known as crimes against humanity, and put those accused of committing such crimes on trial. The Conservative Party, however, did not want to rush to introduce such laws as they believed it would upend the structure of the Creeperian Armed Forces as many of its high ranking officials were implicated in committing various atrocities during the reign of Miguel V. Under the Prime Ministership of Alfonso Moreno Salinas, the Conservatives blocked all attempts by the Liberal leader Álvaro Pinto Aparicio to pass such legislation. The Conservative Prime Ministers that succeeded Moreno Salinas, Bernardo Funes Luque, Camilo Funes Luque, and Samuel Molina Tassis, also prevented Pinto Aparicio and the Liberals from passing legislation.

Emmanuel Sánchez Andino is sometimes called the "Father of Creeperian Human Rights."

The Liberals won fifty-one seats in the general election of 1600, the first time the Liberal Party won an outright majority in the Parliament. Pinto Aparicio's successor as party leader, Emmanuel Sánchez Andino, was sworn in as Prime Minister on 8 March 1600 and immediately introduced a bill to establish fundamental basic human rights in Creeperopolis. The bill, Recognition of the Fundamental and Basic Rights of All Men in Creeperopolis, passed with a final vote of 50–49–1. Former Prime Minister Molina Tassis openly criticized the bill and stated that it set a dangerous precedent that would haunt Creeperopolis for the rest of time.

On 10 March 1600, the law established by the bill went into effect. Officially called the Law of Basic Rights, what is now commonly referred to as the Sánchez Andino Laws was a series of laws that made several practices illegal and enforced guidelines and regulations to prevent such practices. Among the practices made illegal was capital punishment, but the Supreme Court struck down that specific law as it was deemed unconstitutional. Other practices, however, were made illegal without any intervention from the Supreme Court, such as using child labor, unpaid labor, forced labor, physically injuring uncooperative workers, extrajudicial killings of ethnic and religious minorities, among other practices that were normal at the time.

The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of All Men of Creeperopolis was established on 17 April 1600. Its purpose was to oversee enforcement of the laws that were placed into effect and to monitor for any violations of the laws by preforming any activities that had been made illegal. The Court of the Rights of All Men of Creeperopolis was established on 1 May 1600 by the committee to put those accused of committing human rights violations on trial. The court was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on 3 May 1600, but Sánchez Andino appealed the case. Although there was no legal way to challenge the Supreme Court's decision of something being unconstitutional, Sánchez Andino managed to convince the members of the court that he was legally able to do so. On 1 June 1600, the Supreme Court heard arguments from the Liberals, in support of the court, and the Conservatives, in opposition of the court. In the landmark case Committee for the Protection of the Rights of All Men of Creeperopolis and Court of the Rights of All Men of Creeperopolis v. Supreme Court of Creeperopolis, the Supreme Court ruled 8–5 that the court was in fact constitutional as it did not supersede the Supreme Court and was on the same level as lower departmental courts.

Pelayo Águilarez Suñer was the first ever Creeperian tried and executed for crimes against humanity.

On 2 May 1600, Pelayo Águilarez Suñer, a retired military officer of the Creeperian Army, was arrested and charged with several crimes against ethnic and religious minorities he had ordered during his service. Águilarez Suñer was 80, having served as an officer in the Army from 1537 to 1582. He was specifically charged with ordering his soldiers to burn the homes of Deltinians, rape their women, castrate their men, and mutilate their children as a part of the First Great Persecution of Deltinian Islam which had been occurring since the Decree of La'Victoria made in 1326 during the Creeperian Crusade. He was put on trial on 1 June 1600 and found guilty of all four charges. He was sentenced to death by hanging and the execution was carried out on 15 July 1600. Conservatives condemned the court's decision, calling it hypocritical as the five judges on the court were all supporters of Sánchez Andino who had previously attempted to abolish capital punishment.

In 1602, Sánchez Andino and Chancellor Isidora Fontes of Greater Sacramento met in Sacramento to discuss the formation of an international human rights organization. The International Organization of God-Given Rights was established as the first international human rights organization on 18 November 1602. The organization still exists today and is known as the International Organization of Human Rights. The primary goal of the organization was to further the human of member nations. Creeperopolis' neighboring nations, the Kingdoms of Atlántida, Castilliano, and Senvar joined in 1605, 1636, and 1731, respectively.

Political freedom

One-party system

Main article: Creeperian Initiative

Treatment of prisoners

Use of torture

The Creeperian government approves of the use of torture in interrogation and as a form of punishment prior to execution.

The Tuxtla Martínez-Panachor Maximum Correctional Facility is notorious for its poor human rights record, especially since it is a prison camp that houses Creeperopolis' worst criminals. Torture is reported to commonly occur at the prison and it has been confirmed on several occasions. In Creeperopolis, pedophilia and any crime against a child are punished by death, and all of the country's convicted pedophiles and those who committed crimes against children are sent to TMP. During an interview with the Gaceta Creeperiano in 2012, Onésimo Ledesma Soriano, the Director of the prison, described the process such an individual goes through in the prison.

(Question: It is known that all pedophiles are sent to TMP after they are arrested and pedophilia is a capital crime according to the Constitution. What exactly happens to them when they are sent to TMP?)

We have the pedophile sent here late at night, around midnight. When the subhuman arrives, it is a subhuman because it officially loses personhood when it commits the act, we send it to a dark room under the administration block and it is left in darkness and nothingness, hands and feet tied up, no food and no water, to mess with its mental state, for about two hours. After the two hours, we come in and dimly light the room. If it's asleep, we whip it until it wakes up, but if it's awake, we whip it anyway to let it know we're here. After that, we begin, around, 30 minutes of waterboarding, informing it that this is the tamest of the punishments it will endure for its crime. Next, since the poor thing hasn't had anything to eat all day and must be starving, we give it its first meal of the day, but first we need to aquire the meal. The thing is stripped and forcibly castrated. Our preferred method is a slow slicing from the bottom up with a rusty machete to ensure it suffers as much as possible for the crime it committed with its reproductive system, not before crushing and stomping on it of course; it doesn't deserve to have a reproductive system anymore. So now, we have its dinner. We feed it to it since it's still tied up. If it refuses to eat up after 10 minutes, we cut off one finger. Another ten minutes, another finger, and repeat. After we are out of fingers, we move to toes. If it still refuses to eat, we blend its meal and add feces and urine from the prisoners to the blend and forcibly make it drink up. However, if it does eat, we cut off the fingers and toes quickly instead of slowly as a reward for being cooperative. Now that dinner is over, the thing has been fed and can never commit such an abomination ever again. Next, we leave the thing alone until 6am when we take a roll call of the prison. We announce to the prisoners their new guest and inform the population of its crime, and we let it into the prison population. If it dies, it dies, oh well. Even Mara Salvatrucha despises these subhumans. You may say that it is escaping our justice, but the maras are in here for a reason. When the kill these things, the killings are brutal and torturous. I remember several times seeing these things skinned and even sometimes decapitated. Like, they have no access to anything sharp, so I'm genuinely impressed the gangs manage to decapitate these things. Perhaps they use their shoelaces to good effect, who knows. Sometimes they even let it survive, knowing that it will endure more pain if we torture it. Anyway, if it survives until noon rolecall, it is removed from the population and returns to the dark room. It is again tied up and stripped and we slowly pull its arms and legs apart, while at the same time dropping burning coal onto its body to induce severe burns while continuing to whip it. As part of our mental torture, we let spiders and cockroaches and ants crawl all over it. Don't worry, none are venomous. We don't want the subhuman to escape from a bite to die of poison; it needs to suffer. When the joints in its arms and legs are broken, we begin to slowly skin its feet and work up until the knees. At the same time, we take sledgehammers and work away at breaking its femurs. Then we pull out teeth and wax off any hair left on its body. Next, its skinless feet are put on a grill to burn and we cut off the ears and nose. If it survives all of that, and believe me, unfortunate souls have survived that torment, we bring it to the prison yard during yard time at around 4pm and announce to the prisoners that the subhuman survived and will be executed in the yard. It is perhaps the only time prisoners and guards are side by side in agreement that justice is being served. We nail it to an upside down cross and set it on fire. Sometimes its broken joints give way and it falls to the ground, sometimes its joints don't give way and it stays there. Either way, it burns alive and it is then up to God to decide if it has truly repented for its crime and will regain its personhood or if it will be eternally damned. I have overseen over 5,000 such executions. I do not regret a single one.

— Onésimo Ledesma Soriano, 2012

The response from Ledesma Soriano was approved by the Creeperian government. The government notes that a notable decrease in arrests of pedophiles was reported in the following 2 years, possibly as a fear of what would happen to them for the crime they would have been convicted of.

Capital punishment

Main article: Capital punishment in Creeperopolis

Capital punsihment is a legal penalty in Creeperopolis for certain capital crimes. Around 800–1,000 executions occur in Creeperopolis every year on average for crimes ranging from murder to sorcery to apostasy to pedophilia. Creeperopolis executes the most people compared to any other country on Terraconserva.

Capital crimes

• Abortion
• Adultery
• Aggravated Burglary
• Apostasy
• Armed Robbery
• Assassinating a Government Official
• Beastiality
• Blasphemy
• De-Catholization Denial
• Deltinian Genocide Acceptance
• Desertion
• Drug smuggling
• Espionage
• Heresy
• Homosexuality
• Malgan Genocide Acceptance
• Murder
• Owning Slaves
• Pedophilia
• Practicing Atheism
• Practicing Communism
• Practicing Islam
• Rape
• Regicide
• Sacrilege
• Sedition
• Sex Trafficking
• Sorcery/Witchcraft
• Supporting Creeperian Opposition
• Supporting Lyoan Opposition
• Terrorism
• Transgenderism
• Treason
• Waging war on God
• Waging war on the Empire

Methods of capital punishment

• Beheading
• Boiling
• Breaking Wheel
• Burning
• Burying
• Crucifixion
• Crushing
• Death by Animals
• Dehydration
• Disembowelment
• Dismemberment
• Drawing and Quartering
• Drowning
• Falling from Helicopter
• Firing Squad
• Flaying
• Garrote
• Gas Inhalation
• Hanging
• Impalement
• Ingesting Molten Metal
• Keelhauling
• Pánfilo Coffin
• Poisoning
• Sawing
• Slow Slicing
• Stoning
• Strangulation

Discrimination against religious minorities

Ethnic violence against Deltinians

Ethnic violence and tensions between Creeperans and Deltinians have been present since the Deltinians invaded and conquered the Old Kingdom of Creeperopolis in 745AD.

A depiction of the 1620 Abdan race riot.

In the general election of 1620, Liberal Fidel Moreno Dávalos was reelected as Prime Minister of Creeperopolis, who became Prime Minister following the death of Orlando González Leoz in 1618. During the election, Badri al-Morad became the first ethnic Deltinian member of Parliament. His election outraged many Creeperans who held anti-Deltinian views. When he was sworn in as a member of Parliament on 8 March 1620, a riot began in his home district of San Pablo, Abdan. He returned to the city in April 1620 and attempted to pacify the riot, but the angry mob attacked him and lynched him in the city's town square. His body was paraded around the city and mass killings of Deltinians occurred.

Moreno Dávalos denounced the violence and murder of the member of Parliament and sent in the Army to crush the riot. The Army arrived in June 1620 and crushed the riot by force. The government reported 121 rioters dead and 20 soldiers dead, with 519 more rioters being arrested. The city remained under military occupation until 1622. Each of the 519 rioters arrested were put on trial for the death of al-Morad and inciting massacres against Deltinians in the city, of which 1,418 were killed from March to June 1620. Of the 519, 67 were sentenced to death, 211 were sentenced to life imprisonment, 144 were sentenced to varying non-life prison sentences, 96 were acquitted, and 1 was left with no decision as he died before a verdict was given. Of the 67 sentenced to death, 58 were executed on 1 January 1623, 1 died in captivity before execution, and the remaining 8 had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment. The riot and mass killing of Deltinians was the worst since the end of the persecution of 1326 to 1600.

Discrimination against religious minorities

Attacks against Atheists

Anti-Atheism (Antiateísmo) is an enforced policy in Creeperopolis. Creeperian Anti-Atheism is an ideology and a political movement against Atheism, as a theory and more specifically as it presented itself during the Second Parliamentary Era and the Creeperian Civil War. Organized Anti-Atheism developed properly during the Creeperian Civil War with rise of the National Council for Peace and Order, nicknamed the Miguelists. Anti-Atheism was one of the core elements of Romerism and the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council, nicknamed the Romerists.

The first organization which was specifically dedicated to opposing Atheism was the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council which fought in the Creeperian Civil War starting in 1933 against the recently established National Council for Peace and Order. The Romerist movement was militarily supported by several allied foreign governments which represented the first instance of Anti-Atheism as a government policy in Creeperopolis. The Romerists defeated the Miguelists and Creeperopolis was stabilized in 1949. Following the civil war, the Creeperian Initiative was established with Anti-Atheism as one of its core ideologies. The Creeperian government continues to impose Anti-Atheist policies. In Creeperopolis, practicing Atheism is punishable by the death penalty.

LGBT rights

Main article: LGBT rights in Creeperopolis

Fallen Roses, a memorial in Asr El Ziqara, Greater Sacramento, created in 2001 to respect and remember several LGBT rights activists killed in Creeperopolis by the government. New names are added to the memorial every year.

All homosexual and transgender behaviors in Creeperopolis are illegal, making LGBT rights in Creeperopolis the worst in the world. As such, Creeperopolis does not recognize same-sex marriage, domestic partnerships, or civil unions in any capacity. The criminal penalties against homosexuality and cross-dressing are regularly and strictly enforced against all people in Creeperopolis. The Creeperian government also views cross-dressing and being transgender as being prohibited under Catholic jurisprudence, and is therefore illegal. Criminal sanctions for cross-dressing tend to be the same for homosexuality, such as torture, life imprisonment, and capital punishment. The Creeperian government does not permit sex change operations to take place in the empire, and it does not allow people to obtain new legal documents to have their gender changed on their documents. Much like with homosexuality, family members may feel obligated to kill a transgender sibling or relative in order to "save face" or restore the family's honor and esteem within the community. The Creeperian government has pardoned many individuals accused of killing a homosexual or transgender and they are not considered human beings by the government, effectively making the killing not equivalent to homicide.

Creeperopolis has laws which discriminate and encourage discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Harassment or violence against LGBT people is not addressed in any bias-motivated or hate crime law. Advocacy for LGBT rights is illegal within the empire. The required exit and entry visa paperwork does not ask people about their sexual orientation, as it does their nationality, sex, religion, and marital status. Prior to 2010, homosexuals who had Sacramatian citizenship were protected from death and were merely deported, however, after the passage of A Motion to Cleanse the Fatherland From Sin was passed on 9 February 2010 by the Council of Mayors, all homosexuals, even those with Sacramatian citizenship, were subject to immediate death. Several LGBT rights activists have been arrested and killed by the Creeperian government.

There have been multiple instances of violence and murders targeting homosexuals and transsexuals throughout Creeperopolis' history. It was reported that during the Creeperian Civil War, both the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council and the National Council for Peace and Order kidnapped, tortured, and executed over thousands of homosexuals in the White and Red Terrors, respectively. After the civil war, violence against LGBT individuals continued. The Condor Initiative targetted gays under the banner of communism and atheism. After homosexuality was criminalized again after it was decriminalized in the Second Parliamentary Era, hate crimes against LGBT people skyrocketed and the police did and continues to do nothing about it.

Public and private education in Creeperopolis are required to teach basic Catholic values based on the interpretation of the Bible, which includes strong condemnation of homosexuality. In addition, Creeperian Catholicism condemns cross-dressing. The Ministry of Education approved textbooks that reflect the county's Catholic view against homosexual acts by stating that "[h]omosexuality is one of the most disgusting sins and greatest crimes," and that the proper punishment for the intentional act of homosexual intercourse is death. The Creeperian government censors media with punishments of torture, imprisonment, or death for any person possessing, importing, distributing, or producing media without governmental approval. Media content, including advertising, cannot be seen as insulting the royal family or conflicting with Catholic teachings and values. Homosexuality and cross-dressing are dealt with in print news through news coverage of criminal matters. No endorsement of LGBT rights is permitted. Radio and TV programs are similarly banned from expressing support for LGBT rights, but homosexuality and cross-dressing can be discussed as long as the negative attitudes and biases are reinforced. A call-in TV show may feature a discussion about the immorality or "illness" of homosexuality. LGBT themes in movies, television, music, and other media are a factor to completely ban a movie, or at least heavily censor it. Customs agents keep a list of films or TV shows that are not allowed to be brought into the country. The government prohibits creating, distributing or accessing online content or webpages that the government deems to be pornographic, especially depiction homosexual acts, or in violation of religious values or public morals or is a threat to public health, safety or order. The Creeperian government has frequently blocked internet users in the country from accessing web pages or other online content that express support for LGBT rights. The restrictions on the internet extent to blogs, social media and video upload webpages.

See also

• Conspiracy theories about Creeperopolis