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<\/p>\nLibert\u00e9 pour le docteur Sadok Chourou Libert\u00e9 pour tous les prisonniers politiques
Association Internationale de soutien aux Prisonniers Politiques<\/font><\/strong> 43 rue Eldjazira, Tunis Aispptunisie@yahoo.fr \u00a0<\/div>\nTunis, le 6 f\u00e9vrier 2009 \u00a0 Les services de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 refusent depuis des mois \u00e0 Abdelkarim Baalouche, un ex prisonnier politique, de d\u00e9livrer \u00e0 ce dernier une carte d\u2019identit\u00e9 nationale. Monsieur Baalouche en a fait la demande le 15 d\u00e9cembre 2008 au poste de la Garde Nationale de Fouchana pour remplacer son ancienne carte, qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 saisie par la brigade sp\u00e9ciale lors de son arrestation dans les ann\u00e9es 90 du si\u00e8cle pass\u00e9. Etrangement, les services de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 invoquent des \u00ab raisons techniques \u00bb.: – Son ancienne carte d\u2019identit\u00e9 n\u2019aurait pas fait l\u2019objet d\u2019un enregistrement informatique – sa demande de carte d\u2019identit\u00e9 nationale ne mentionne pas le travail de la personne concern\u00e9e [\u2026] Il a d\u00fb d\u00e9poser une plainte au bureau des relations avec le citoyen au minist\u00e8re de l\u2019Int\u00e9rieur. Il y a deux semaines il s\u2019est plaint aupr\u00e8s du Comit\u00e9 sup\u00e9rieur des droits de l\u2019Homme (structure officielle de \u00ab droits de l\u2019homme \u00bb) et jusqu\u2019\u00e0 aujourd\u2019hui monsieur Abdelkarim Baalouche n\u2019a pu obtenir de carte d\u2019identit\u00e9. Monsieur Abdelkarim Baalouche \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9 le 5 novembre 2008 avec le dernier groupe de Nahdha \u00e0 b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier d\u2019une lib\u00e9ration, au terme de dix-sept ans pass\u00e9s dans diff\u00e9rentes prisons tunisiennes. [\u2026]<\/div>\n
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La commission de suivi des prisonniers lib\u00e9r\u00e9s<\/font><\/strong> (traduction d\u2019extraits, ni revue ni corrig\u00e9e par les auteurs de la version en arabe, LT)<\/font><\/div>\n\n
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<\/p>\nDaouletli et Lourimi se voient interdire de rendre visite \u00e0 l\u2019avocat Noureddine Behiri<\/font><\/h2>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n
La police politique a interdit dans l\u2019apr\u00e8s midi du jeudi 5 f\u00e9vrier 2009 \u00e0 Zyed Daouletli et Lajmi Lourimi, deux ex prisonniers politiques, de rendre visite \u00e0 l\u2019avocat Noureddine Behiri ; Des agents de la police politique leur ont barr\u00e9 le passage. Un des agents s\u2019est d\u00e9tach\u00e9 pour interroger Lajmi Lourimi sur ses rapports avec Zouha\u00efer Makhlouf, militant des droits de l\u2019homme et correspondant de Essabil On Line, et l\u2019a somm\u00e9 de renoncer \u00e0 cette relation, ce qu\u2019a refus\u00e9 Lourimi, r\u00e9affirmant qu\u2019il \u00e9tait le seul habilit\u00e9 \u00e0 d\u00e9cider de ses fr\u00e9quentations. \u00a0
<\/p>\nUn d\u00e9tenu tunisien est renvoy\u00e9 \u00e0 la prison de Kroper \u00e0 Bagdad<\/font><\/h2>\n<\/strong> Aujourd\u2019hui, jeudi 5 f\u00e9vrier 2009, Tarek Herzi, ex boxeur tunisien emprisonn\u00e9 en Irak, a contact\u00e9 son p\u00e8re pour l\u2019informer qu\u2019il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 transf\u00e9r\u00e9 vendredi dernier de la prison de Boka \u00e0 Basra \u00e0 celle de Kroper dans la zone verte de Bagdad et lui a fait part de son d\u00e9pit du retard pris par les forces d\u2019occupation am\u00e9ricaines \u00e0 le transf\u00e9rer en Tunisie, comme elles le lui en avaient fait la promesse. [\u2026] Zouha\u00efer Makhlouf, Tunis (Source ; Essabil On Line, 5 f\u00e9vrier 2009)<\/font><\/strong> (traduction d’extraits ni revue ni corrig\u00e9e par les auteurs de la version en arabe, LT)<\/font> \u00a0<\/div>\n\n
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Parti socialiste fran\u00e7ais<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n <\/p>\nParodie de proc\u00e8s en Tunisie : le r\u00e9gime de Ben Ali r\u00e9prime le mouvement social de Gafsa<\/font><\/h2>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Le 5 f\u00e9vrier 2009 Le proc\u00e8s des 33 membres et animateurs du mouvement social du bassin minier de Redeyef\/Gafsa en Tunisie s\u2019est d\u00e9roul\u00e9 les 3 et 4 f\u00e9vrier 2009 devant la Cour d\u2019appel de Gafsa. Cette parodie de justice, allant jusqu\u2019\u00e0 des peines de prison ferme, n\u2019a pu \u00e9touffer la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 d\u2019une lutte sociale pour la dignit\u00e9 des ouvriers mineurs et de leurs familles, ni faire oublier les exactions d\u2019une police politique qui use de la violence voire de la torture comme mode op\u00e9ratoire. Le Parti socialiste exprime sa solidarit\u00e9 avec les d\u00e9tenus de Gafsa, et continuera de participer activement aux initiatives qui seront organis\u00e9es en vue de leur lib\u00e9ration, et du respect des droits de l\u2019homme en Tunisie. Le Parti socialiste, s\u2019associant aux syndicats et aux organisations tunisiennes de d\u00e9fense des droits et des libert\u00e9s,\u00a0 demande aux autorit\u00e9s Tunisiennes : – la lib\u00e9ration des d\u00e9tenus de Gafsa, qui n\u2019ont pas eu droit \u00e0 un proc\u00e8s \u00e9quitable ; – de garantir les droits politiques et sociaux aux citoyens tunisiens, parmi lesquels le droit \u00e0 une justice \u00e9quitable, la libert\u00e9 de la presse, la libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression, et l\u2019organisation d\u2019\u00e9lections d\u00e9mocratiques, en cette ann\u00e9e pr\u00e9sidentielle en Tunisie. Les relations historiques entre la France et la Tunisie, conf\u00e8rent \u00e0 la France une responsabilit\u00e9 particuli\u00e8re. Le Pr\u00e9sident Sarkozy doit s\u2019exprimer sur ces \u201cproc\u00e8s\u201d et contribuer \u00e0 la lib\u00e9ration de ces d\u00e9tenus, et \u00e0 la fin des pratiques de torture dans les prisons tunisiennes. Communiqu\u00e9 de Pouria Amirshahi, Secr\u00e9taire national aux Droits de l\u2019Homme<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nTunisian government shuts down Radio Kalima<\/font><\/h2>\n<\/strong> \u00a0<\/div>\n
Posted February 5th, 2009 Tunisia has shut down the independent radio station Kalima days after it began broadcasting via satellite. The government says the station was \u00ab\u00a0exploiting public communications,\u00a0\u00bb but rights organizations both in Tunisia and abroad say it is yet another move to limit freedom of speech.
By MOHSEN AL-MEZLINI<\/font><\/strong> TUNIS, February 5, 2009 (MENASSAT) \u2014 \u00ab\u00a0The Tunisian general prosecutor came last Friday with more than 20 plain-clothes security agents, and confiscated the bulk of our equipment,\u00a0\u00bb Lutfi Heidouri, an editor with Kalima online magazine told MENASSAT. \u00ab\u00a0Then they vanished as quickly as they had come, but not before closing the building with a red wax seal.\u00a0\u00bb At the time of the closure, the state prosecutor told Radio Kalima management they were complying with a September 2008 court ruling that said the courts needed to \u00ab\u00a0control the general conditions\u00a0\u00bb of the media environment. \u00ab\u00a0Media organizations exploiting public communications networks, and access networks, under the guise of contributing to the state’s public duties\u00a0\u00bb were to be shutdown, if not totally then at least partially, the ruling said. Station staff told MENASSAT the problems began when Kalima, which was already well-known as independent news website, started broadcasting radio via the Hotbird 8 satellite system on January 28. That very same day, local staff was denied entry into the station. Legal disputes<\/strong> Station manager Siham Bensedrine said Kalima Radio and its online magazine have consistently refused be a government mouthpiece in their news coverage. \u00ab\u00a0We expected the authorities’ reaction would be harsh at some point, and we were ready to make sacrifices,\u00a0\u00bb she told MENASSAT. But Heidouri said the government went well beyond the scope of their duties in executing the court’s ruling. \u00ab\u00a0Kalima staff had their mobile phone lines disabled moments before the security agents arrived at the station to shut things down,\u00a0\u00bb he said. The Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights joined several international rights organizations in accusing the Tunisian authorities of violating the civil rights of the radio staff, as well as those of the radio station’s guests who were present at the time. Scenes of the events were broadcast on Al-Jazeera and posted on several social networking sites, among them Facebook. Tunisian authorities have since accused the station of broadcasting without a permit, adding that the station was receiving foreign funding that general prosecutors said was suspicious. Kalima management has countered these allegations by saying that the radio broadcasts primarily from Italy, and as such, most of the Tunisian legal regulations being used to shut the station down don’t apply \u2013 a charge the Tunisian authorities obviously reject. Government intimidation<\/strong> Kalima station manager Bensedrine described the station’s content as \u00ab\u00a0focusing on current social issues that people suffer from,\u00a0\u00bb with an emphasis on \u00ab\u00a0the corruption that runs through out the Tunisian society.\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0We’ve crossed several government \u2018red lines,\u2019\u00a0\u00bb Bensedrine said. In the days since the January 30 closure, a source in the Tunisian judiciary has told MENASSAT that the general prosecutor will start an investigation against Bensedrine for \u00ab\u00a0launching a radio station and beginning to broadcast without express legal permission.\u00a0\u00bb Meanwhile, human rights groups are closely watching the case as the Tunisian authorities have begun a wider intimidation campaign against Radio Kalima employees. The Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon about Omar Mistiri, Kalima’s editor in chief. It said, \u00ab\u00a0He was threatened with a knife by someone believed to be from the police, after he was verbally attacked over the last few days by strangers surrounding the station.\u00a0\u00bb Kalima staff reporter Fatin Hamdi said that there has been a regular police presence around his house ever since the closure. Hamdi said her father had been called in for questioning by police and told to pressure Hamdi into quitting her job and her journalism studies. \u00ab\u00a0Bring her back home and out of the capital,\u00a0\u00bb Hamdi said, quoting the police. But in a phone call with MENASSAT, the journalist said that \u00ab\u00a0intimidation tactics will not work with me.\u00a0\u00bb Reactions<\/strong> The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded that the Tunisian government\u00a0 put an immediate end to the station’s siege. \u00ab\u00a0The PR campaign by the Tunisian government to polish its image, will not overshadow the fact that Tunisia is one of the most oppressive countries when it comes to freedom of press,\u00a0\u00bb said Mohamad Abdeldayim, CPJ’s Middle East & North Africa coordinator. The organization sent a letter to US President Barack Obama in early January asking him to address what they said was \u00ab\u00a0one of the worst environments for press freedoms.\u00a0\u00bb The Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights said the government had an obligation to \u00ab\u00a0guarantee freedom of movement for the journalists and the station’s visitors.\u00a0\u00bb It\u00a0 demanded an end to the aggression and a serious investigation into previous assaults against Kalima staff. The Tunisian government has issued no further comments about the situation. (Source: \u00ab\u00a0Menassat.com\u00a0\u00bb Le 5 fevrier 2009)<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n