Home<\/span> – Accuei<\/span><\/a>l<\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n <\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n <\/font><\/p>\n Paris-Gen\u00e8ve-Copenhague, le 26 mars 2010. L\u2019Observatoire pour la protection des d\u00e9fenseurs des droits de l\u2019Homme, un programme conjoint de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration internationale des ligues des droits de l\u2019Homme (FIDH) et de l\u2019Organisation mondiale contre la torture (OMCT), la Ligue des droits de l\u2019Homme (LDH) et le R\u00e9seau Euro-m\u00e9diterran\u00e9en des droits de l\u2019Homme (REMDH) expriment leur pr\u00e9occupation suite \u00e0 la campagne de diffamation men\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019encontre des d\u00e9fenseurs Me Patrick Baudouin et de Me Michel Tubiana.<\/i><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n Le 24 mars 2010, l\u2019hebdomadaire tunisien Koll Ennass<\/i> a de nouveau publi\u00e9 un article contenant des propos diffamatoires \u00e0 l\u2019encontre de Me Patrick Baudouin<\/b>, avocat et pr\u00e9sident d\u2019honneur de la FIDH, et de Me Michel Tubiana<\/b>, avocat et pr\u00e9sident d\u2019honneur de la LDH, les taxant respectivement de pro-colonialiste et d\u2019agent du Mossad. Le journal avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 publi\u00e9 des attaques d\u00e9gradantes contre Me Tubiana au mois de d\u00e9cembre 2009, dressant de lui un portrait de collaborateur du Gouvernement isra\u00e9lien<\/font>[1]<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Ces propos diffamatoires interviennent alors que Me Baudouin et Me Tubiana ont d\u00e9pos\u00e9, le 16 mars 2009, une plainte avec constitution de partie civile pour apologie de crime de guerre dans l\u2019affaire du syndicaliste tunisien Farhat Hached, assassin\u00e9 en 1952 et dont l\u2019assassinat a \u00e9t\u00e9 revendiqu\u00e9 par la Main Rouge, une organisation arm\u00e9e secr\u00e8te qui d\u00e9pendait de l\u2019Etat fran\u00e7ais et qui s\u00e9vissait \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque. A travers cette plainte, ils d\u00e9noncent notamment la nostalgie du colonialisme et la r\u00e9surgence du racisme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n L\u2019Observatoire, la LDH et le REMDH condamnent cette campagne de diffamation, et demandent aux autorit\u00e9s tunisiennes de mener sans d\u00e9lais une enqu\u00eate exhaustive, ind\u00e9pendante et impartiale sur les faits d\u00e9crits, afin d\u2019identifier les responsables, de les traduire devant un tribunal ind\u00e9pendant, comp\u00e9tent et impartial et d\u2019appliquer les sanctions p\u00e9nales, civiles et\/ou administratives pr\u00e9vues par la loi, et, plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement, de se conformer aux dispositions de la D\u00e9claration sur les d\u00e9fenseurs des droits de l\u2019Homme adopt\u00e9e par l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Nations unies le 9 d\u00e9cembre 1998 et aux instruments r\u00e9gionaux et internationaux relatifs aux droits de l\u2019Homme ratifi\u00e9s par la Tunisie.<\/span><\/p>\n Pour plus d\u2019informations, merci de contacter :<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n \u00b7<\/span> FIDH : Ga\u00ebl Grilhot \/ Karine Appy : + 33 1 43 55 25 18<\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n \u00b7<\/span> OMCT : Delphine Reculeau : + 41 22 809 49 39<\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n \u00b7<\/span> LDH : Anne Garaco\u00efts : 01 56 55 51 07<\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n \u00b7<\/span> REMDH\u00a0: Marc Degli\u00a0: +45 32 64 17 16<\/span><\/b> [1]<\/font><\/span><\/a> Cf. communiqu\u00e9 de presse conjoint du 18 d\u00e9cembre 2009.<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n New York, March 25, 2010\u2014Tunisian authorities banned journalists from attending two press conferences for the launch of local and international human rights reports this week, and is stepping up harassment of journalists overall, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.<\/span><\/p>\n On Wednesday, police ordered journalists not to attend a press conference at a law office in Tunis where Human Rights Watch was planning to present its report, \u201c<\/font>A Larger Prison: Repression of Former Political Prisoners in Tunisia<\/font><\/a>.\u201d Several Tunis hotels had refused to host the conference at the request of Tunisian authorities, journalists told CPJ.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Lotfi Hidouri of the London-based news agency Al-Quds Press and the locally blocked online magazine Kalima<\/i>, and freelance journalist and former political prisoner Slim Boukdhir told CPJ that they were ordered by the police not to leave their homes in the suburbs of Tunis on Wednesday morning. They added that plainclothes police roughed up Mohamed Hamrouni of the opposition weekly Al-Mawkif<\/i>, and insulted Ismail Debara of the news Web site Elaph<\/i>. Rachid Khechana, editor of Al-Mawkif,<\/i> and Lotfi Hajji of Al-Jazeera were prevented more than once from meeting with representatives from Human Rights Watch and accessing public venues over the past few days, Khechana told CPJ.<\/span><\/p>\n On Monday, journalists and human rights activists were physically blocked from attending another news conference for the launch by a local group called the International Association to Support Political Prisoners of a report titled \u201cCitizens Under Siege: Administrative Control in Tunisia.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe condemn the Tunisian authorities\u2019 heavy-handed tactics designed to stop journalists from doing their jobs,\u201d said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ\u2019s Middle\u200e<\/span>East and North Africa program coordinator. \u201cTunisia proves itself with every ban, every obstruction of the independent media, to be unable to abide by international standards for freedom of expression.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n In a letter sent to local and international rights and press freedom groups, Khechana called for solidarity with Tunisian independent journalists: \u00ab\u00a0I am calling on all the defenders of journalists and human rights to raise their voices to denounce this security wrecking and try to bring to an end to police harassment and all kinds of pressure exerted on free pens,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Freelance journalist Sofiene Chourabi told CPJ that on Wednesday Tunis airport police searched him and confiscated books he had bought in Egypt, including the annual report of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. In February, airport police <\/font>confiscated books<\/font><\/a> including CPJ publications from rights lawyer and blogger Mohamed Abbou and Hidouri.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n CPJ\u2019s repeated calls on Tunisian authorities to loosen their grip on the media, release journalist T<\/font>aoufik Ben Brik<\/font><\/a>, and overturn a four-year prison sentence against <\/font>Fahem Boukadous<\/font><\/a> have been met with silence.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n <\/font><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/div>\n Human Rights Watch hada spot of bother<\/a> earlier this week over a press conference in Tunisia to introduce itslatest report<\/a> on the regime’s harassment of critics:<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0On March 22, the Minister for Communications, Oussama Romdhani, told Human Rights Watch that the government did not want the news conference to proceed. Officials from the ministries of Interior and Justice said that they would not allow it to proceed because it ‘tarnishes the image of Tunisia and is one-sided and biased’. Some journalists received phone calls from the authorities that the Human Rights Watch event was forbidden.<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Several hotels in Tunis that had previously offered Human Rights Watch rates for a room for the briefing withdrew those offers. A hotel suite booked by Human Rights Watch on March 23 was flooded three hours after the Human Rights Watch staff checked in … and the hotel was unable to offer Human Rights Watch another room. As a result, the event was moved to the offices of a Tunis law firm.<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Plainclothes police officers on foot, on motorcycles, and in cars have openly and regularly followed Human Rights Watch staff as they moved about Tunis. At least six plainclothes security agents patrolled the street outside the downtown law office and recorded the licence plate numbers of cars parked nearby.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This was a pretty stupid way to behave, because it only lends credence tothe key argument<\/a> in HRW’s report \u2013 that \u201cwhen Tunisia releases political prisoners, it ensures that life resembles a larger prison defined by surveillance, threats, and a cocktail of restrictions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n A much smarter approach \u2013 especially since the Tunisian authorities are claiming the report is wrong \u2013 would have been to let the press conference go ahead unmolested,as the Libyans did<\/a> earlier this year (much to their credit).<\/p>\n Posted by Brian Whitaker, 25 March 2010.Comment <\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/font><\/p>\nTUNISIE : Attaques diffamatoires \u00e0 l\u2019encontre de deux avocats fran\u00e7ais<\/font><\/h2>\n
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