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\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n JOINT ACTION – TUNISIA 12 June 2008 IPA, PEN and WAN convey TMG recommendations to UN for better promotion of press freedom SOURCE: International Publishers’ Association (IPA), Geneva (IPA\/IFEX) – The following is a 9 June 2008 joint statement by IPA, PEN and WAN, made on behalf of the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG) to the 8th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Oral Submission by International PEN, the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) 8th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva 9 June 2008 – Item 6 – Tunisia In April 2007, the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of 18 organisations concerned for the promotion of freedom of expression in Tunisia, issued a report, entitled Freedom of Expression in Tunisia: The Siege Holds which refers to serious breaches of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in Tunisia, notably Article 19, following the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), hosted in Tunis in November 2005. These breaches include: a. Internet and book censorship; b. Restrictions on freedom of association; c. Interference in the judiciary; d. Detention of prisoners of opinion; e. Reports of torture and police brutality. The TMG believes that the only recommendation pertaining to freedom of expression, included in the Tunisia UPR report (A\/HRC\/WG.6\/1\/TUN\/4, revision of Art. 51 of the Press Code) is far from sufficient to address the multitude of problems existing in Tunisia in this field. The TMG welcomes the release of one of the persons referred to in the TMG report (i.e., journalist and lawyer Mohamed Abbou, released in July 2007, although he remains under restriction), although another journalist, Slim Boukhdir, was arrested in November 2007 and is now serving a one-year prison sentence in difficult conditions in Sfax prison. Also we welcome news of the release of some of the censored books (most of them edited and published by the Arab Institute for Human Rights and the Temimi Foundation) and some positive announced changes in legislation (e.g., the removal of the legal submission procedure with regards to periodicals), but these do not go far enough to address the concerns raised in this report. In addition, we will be looking at the implementation of such announced measures. To date, there is no evidence allowing us to welcome that there has been an ease on Internet blocking, harassment of human rights activists, or restrictions on independent journalism for instance. Once again, we urge the Tunisian authorities to encourage diversity of content and ownership of the press, to stop blocking news websites, to release ALL censored books and to allow new titles to come out. The TMG also reiterates its recommendation that the Tunisian government must allow legal NGOs to work, and independent organisations to be established without requiring prior political approval. In April 2008, the Kalima newspaper was again denied registration at the Ministry of the Interior, thus preventing it from operating as a legal entity. In conclusion, while we appreciate the work of the UPR in reviewing the adherence of Tunisia to international human rights mechanisms, we very much hope that the UN will continue its scrutiny and ensure that obligations are met until such time as the questions raised surrounding Tunisia’s commitments are resolved. Members of the IFEX-TMG: Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRINFO), Egypt ARTICLE 19, United Kingdom Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), Canada Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI), United States Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), Egypt Index on Censorship, United Kingdom International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Belgium International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Netherlands International Press Institute (IPI), Austria International Publishers’ Association (IPA), Switzerland Journaliste en danger (JED), Democratic Republic of Congo Maharat Foundation, Lebanon Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Namibia Norwegian PEN, Norway World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), Canada World Association of Newspapers (WAN), France World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC), United States Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC), United Kingdom For further information on the TMG report \u00ab\u00a0Freedom of Expression in Tunisia: The Siege Holds\u00a0\u00bb, see: http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/82418 For further information on the Boukhdir case, see:
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In the name of Allah the Merciful\u00a0 and prayer and peace be upon the Sincere and Faithfull Prophet \u00ab\u00a0<\/font>\u0625\u0646 \u0623\u0631\u064a\u062f \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0635\u0644\u0627\u062d \u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0637\u0639\u062a \u0648 \u0645\u0627 \u062a\u0648\u0641\u064a\u0642\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u062a\u0648\u0643\u0651\u0644\u062a \u0648 \u0625\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0623\u0646\u064a\u0628\u00a0\u00bb \u0633\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0647\u0648\u062f-\u0627\u0644\u0622\u064a\u0629 88<\/font><\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n\u00ab\u00a0I only desire reform to the best of my power. And my guidance cannot come except from Allah, in Him I put my trust and unto Him I repent.\u00a0\u00bb Surat Hud-verse 88<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\nHarassment prevention is a right and siege lift is a duty<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/div>\n
Written by Abdelkarim Harouni<\/strong><\/font> \u00a0<\/div>\n Tunisia on 1st of June 2008 – 27 Jumada I 1429 Since I was arrested on Friday 6th of November 1987, and over 20 years deprived of safe living in my family\u2019s home reaching eighteen years; including six months of police prosecution and the remainder imprisonment as a result of political unjust state security court judgments, in addition to civilian and military court ones, and during what remains of the 2 decades, I was exposed to security state police harassment trying to prevent me from returning to university and the students\u2019 union but in vain. Even inside prison, I was imposed isolation for 15 years under the pretense of security requirement .A security state police pursuit, the roots of which go back to summer 1981 when I was subject to arrest and torture for the first time. I came out of prison on Nov. 7, 2007 from Mornaguia prison according to undeclared presidential decree that does not exceed conditional release. The day I was released, I did not return back home directly, but I was taken from prison to the nearest police station to find at my welcome, a police officer who participated in torturing me in the autumn of 1986; during the final year of Bourguiba governance that is 21 years ago in the barrack of Bouchoucha, in the capital when I was secretary-general of the Tunisian General Union of Students (U.G.T.E.). He asked me to inform the police station of my returning home and also whenever I am absent out of it \u00ab\u00a0for my expression of good intention\u00a0\u00bb. I refused because the law of the conditional release does not stipulate it and I commented by saying: \u00ab\u00a0Is the citizen required to inform the police of his movements to prove his good intention?\u201d. So, I was arrested by the police and I was released by the police and I lived surrounded by the police over 27 years. The day I left prison, my family welcomed me under the control of the political police and the control situation continued for a long period while I was preoccupied by receiving a large number of congratulators directly or by telephone that did not escape from control as well. After about one month, the Kram-Ouest police station invited me and then Carthage police district so I refused to because of the absence of providing official written convocation, prescribing the subject of the invitation. When being delivered the national identification card, I refused the description of \u00ab\u00a0daily worker\u00a0\u00bb and clung to my qualification as the high engineer or to\u00a0 my situation as \u201ckept unemployed\u201d, but in vain. Then, the administration tried to impose on me the daily signature at the police station until Nov. 8th, 2009 in the name \u00ab\u00a0administrative control\u00a0\u00bb I refused because it is a procedure that the law does not prescribe, it also contradicts with the constitution, which also exceeds the authority of the administration and touches the citizen’s freedom and fundamental rights, and I considered it as a social death penalty as well as an episode from a serial of slow death penalty and I publicly demanded that an end be put to this arbitrary procedure against all the released throughout the country. I also demanded that the police respect the law not to harass my family and held them responsible for the risk it might cause to my father Amor\u2019s health, may Allah protect him, 77 years old especially after the death of my mother Sa\u00efda may Allah mercy be upon her-70 years old- in summer 2006 while I was in prison. Police harassment continued intermittently then intensified following the General Assembly of the human rights organization Libert\u00e9 & Equit\u00e9 (Freedom & Equity) in April and the election of its executive office, as I am one of its members in charge of the relationship with international non-governmental organizations, held under the siege that is specially happening to this organization and generally to the human rights associations and several activists, a siege aiming at obstructing their activity and intimidating their militants (men and women) and isolating them from their reality, which knows continuous degradation on the level of freedoms and political, social and cultural human rights in discordance with the official speech, and human rights movement has known in Tunisia positive developments towards supporting joint action and common positions such as Geneva manifestation\u00a0 on April 7th, 5th and 23rd May 2008 press releases. On the other hand, at the occasion of the visit made to our house on 27th May, by a French philosophy professor who taught at the Sorbonne University in Paris, media and human rights activist, the political police was present on the schedule with two cars in front of our house staying during the visit until our guest\u2019s departure, when then one of the two cars followed her; she lived herself a sample of police harassments that we live in. And on 30th May, the police car returned to camp in front of our house from the morning to nearly 10 p.m. and had already done same so many times before along with other cars, sometimes in addition to the use of a motorcycle. And I was followed when I came out with my father and my brother to the mosque for Friday prayers and then when returned home and previously, late April, accompanied with my father being closely followed even inside the Book Fair. Sometimes, it reached the extent of asking my family about my presence at home, so the response was always clear: claim the police to respect the law and private life. And even in the virtual world, that of the internet in addition to suspension of many non-governmental websites, I have been subject to interruption of several electronic correspondences, just like many opponents. All these harassments\u00a0 bothered the members of my family and embarrassed their life system and relationship with their surroundings\u00a0 as well and at their forefront my father, whose health does not bear such continued and overt pressure in front of\u00a0 the quarter\u2019s residents confusion; to find myself moved from isolation inside prison deprived of my rights as a prisoner to isolation inside the country deprived of my rights as a citizen with the siege continuation on my family before I was arrested, during\u00a0 my imprisonment period and after my release. All this is still happening after more than 16 years of strait imprisonment and 7 months of extended imprisonment, near the tomb of my mother may Allah’s mercy be on her and next to The International Exhibition Palace at the Kram, where the \u00ab\u00a0World Summit of the Society of Information\u00a0\u00bb was held and not very far from Carthage presidential-palace.\u00a0 Such treatment was deeply resented and severely condemned by a large number of politicians and human rights defenders, journalists and ordinary citizens and from many free minds of the world, personalities and organizations and media as well many of whom expressed their support and solidarity demanding an end to be put to these illegal, inhuman and uncivilized practices, such as the Human Rights Commission of the European Parliament and the Amnesty International Agency in France. I can not accept the persistence of this dangerous and humiliating situation nor even normalization with it for the defense of myself, my family, my people and the law. And with Allah’s help, I will continue to struggle to live free, in a free people, in a free country, in a free nation and in a free world whatever the price. And at the same time, I call the authorities to lift the police siege on all the released political prisoners and their families and ensure the return of the expatriates and their families and restitution of civil, political and social\u00a0 rights for all and uplift harassments both on all the human rights activists, journalists and politicians and on human rights, social and cultural organizations seats as well as on political parties in addition to mosques and enable all people and their families of their right for a passport\u00a0 as a first step to ensure a minimum of basic rights and freedoms which distinguishes between the free person and the prisoner\u00a0 that is the right for freedom of movement. I also invite the authorities once again to review their policy in betting on the security solution when dealing with political, human rights and social issues, which deprived the country of its people to enjoy a climate of true security, that spreads in the souls and protects the rights and dignity for all under freedom, justice and law supremacy which would help for stability and prosperity, whatever the challenges.
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Par Moncef Marzouki lundi 9 juin 2008 <\/strong><\/font> A la m\u00e9moire de Ben Ridha Bel Hafnaoui, 18 ans, abattu par la police tunisienne, le 6 juin 2008. <\/strong><\/font> Alors que de nombreux touristes fran\u00e7ais et des milliers de Franco-Tunisiens s\u2019appr\u00eatent \u00e0 traverser la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e pour aller bronzer tranquillement sur les plages de la \u00ab\u00a0douce Tunisie\u00a0\u00bb, manger le \u00ab\u00a0bon couscous\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 l\u2019harissa, boire du th\u00e9 \u00e0 la menthe \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0Sidi Bou\u00a0\u00bb et respirer l\u2019odeur du jasmin, le G\u00e9n\u00e9ral Ben Ali vient de r\u00e9primer dans le sang les \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9voltes populaires\u00a0\u00bb de Redeyef dans le Sud du pays et tout \u00e7a dans une quasi-indiff\u00e9rence de la communaut\u00e9 internationale. Une indignation s\u00e9lective qui choquera sans doute certains d\u2019entre nous. Mais, il est vrai que la Tunisie n\u2019est ni le Tibet, ni le Darfour. En somme, Ben Ali fait figure de \u00ab\u00a0dictateur recommandable\u00a0\u00bb et les quelques balles perdues dans les corps meurtris des jeunes tunisiens ne sont qu\u2019un \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9tail\u00a0\u00bbau regard de la contribution de la dictature tunisienne au nouvel ordre mondial. Le gouvernement tunisien vient de donner sa version des faits survenus le 6 juin \u00e0 Redeyef, ville du bassin minier du sud tunisien en \u00e9bullition depuis des mois. La voici : \u00ab Des actes de violence ont \u00e9t\u00e9 commis par certains individus dans la r\u00e9gion de Redeyef (gouvernorat de Gafsa). \u2026 Des informations sont parvenues, vendredi, aux autorit\u00e9s que des \u00e9l\u00e9ments \u00e9taient en train de fabriquer des cocktails Molotov en vue de les utiliser dans des actes de vandalisme, ce qui a impos\u00e9 l\u2019intervention des Forces de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 qui ont essuy\u00e9 des jets de ces engins incendiaires. \u2026Malgr\u00e9 les mises en garde lanc\u00e9es, conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 la loi, par les Forces de l\u2019ordre, les \u00e9l\u00e9ments perturbateurs n\u2019ont pas obtemp\u00e9r\u00e9, obligeant les forces de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e0 intervenir. \u2026Ces \u00e9v\u00e9nements ont entra\u00een\u00e9 la mort d\u2019un \u00e9l\u00e9ment perturbateur. Cinq autres ont \u00e9t\u00e9 bless\u00e9s ainsi que trois agents de l\u2019ordre \u00bb (extrait du communiqu\u00e9 officiel). Ce qui frappe d\u2019abord dans ce communiqu\u00e9 officiel, c\u2019est le gros mensonge sur le d\u00e9roulement des \u00e9v\u00e8nements. Celui qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 abattu par des policiers, ayant re\u00e7u l\u2019ordre de tirer sur la foule \u00e0 balles r\u00e9elles, est mort en effet avec une balle dans le dos. Mais le plus scandaleux, c\u2019est que le mort (plut\u00f4t l\u2019assassin\u00e9) n\u2019est pas consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un \u00eatre humain, un compatriote, un jeune homme de 18 ans qui comme nous tous a une identit\u00e9. Non, ce n\u2019est qu\u2019un \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9l\u00e9ment perturbateur\u00a0\u00bb (Moushagheb en arabe), qualificatif sens\u00e9 le r\u00e9duire \u00e0 ses justes proportions, lui et les autre \u00e9l\u00e9ments non moins perturbateurs, bless\u00e9s et portant les noms omis de Ismail Rahali, Bouali Khalfi, Helmi Amaidi, et Khaled Rahali. La moindre d\u00e9cence aurait exig\u00e9 que le communiqu\u00e9 du r\u00e9gime respecte le mort en citant son nom, et en montrant le minimum de compassion humaine, par exemple en exprimant ne f\u00fbt ce que le soup\u00e7on de regret devant, allez disons, un regrettable accident. Haro donc sur l\u2019anonyme perturbateur qui a attaqu\u00e9 les forces de l\u2019ordre ! N\u00e9anmoins, nul doute que les autorit\u00e9s tunisiennes confieront \u00e0 une commission bidon (\u00e0 l\u2019instar de celles sur la torture, ou les prisons dans les ann\u00e9es 1990.) la t\u00e2che de confirmer son statut et sa responsabilit\u00e9. L\u2019indignation ma\u00eetris\u00e9e et en r\u00e9fl\u00e9chissant \u00e0 ce terme d\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9ment perturbateur, j\u2019ai \u00e9t\u00e9 frapp\u00e9 par le fait que nous sommes peut \u00eatre face \u00e0 une sorte de transfert. En effet, \u00e0 y regarder de pr\u00e8s ne pouvons nous pas affirmer qu\u2019en Tunisie, et ce depuis vingt ans, le plus grand \u00e9l\u00e9ment perturbateur est un homme qui s\u2019appelle le G\u00e9n\u00e9ral des services secrets Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ? Voici mes arguments pour renvoyer ce terme \u00e0 ses utilisateurs un peu trop imprudents. Les astronomes et les m\u00e9t\u00e9orologues utilisent le concept de fen\u00eatre de lancement pour d\u00e9crire et d\u00e9limiter une p\u00e9riode du temps o\u00f9 des actions d\u00e9termin\u00e9s sont possibles. Quand cette fen\u00eatre se ferme, il devient inutile ou impossible, pour des raisons dus \u00e0 la m\u00e9canique c\u00e9leste ou aux caprices du temps, de lancer la fus\u00e9e ou une action de sauvetage. De la m\u00eame fa\u00e7on, il existe aussi en politique des fen\u00eatres, pour lancer une r\u00e9volution ou des r\u00e9formes. Avant, c\u2019est trop t\u00f4t, apr\u00e8s, c\u2019est trop tard. Pour la Tunisie la fen\u00eatre de lancement des r\u00e9formes qui auraient pu en faire le premier Etat d\u00e9mocratique arabe, s\u2019est ouverte \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 1970. De facto plut\u00f4t que de jurer, les choses ont commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 bouger dans le bon sens. Le pays se dotait de vrais partis politiques ind\u00e9pendants, de la premi\u00e8re Ligue des droits de l\u2019Homme du monde arabe, d\u2019un embryon de presse libre, sans parler du renforcement de son traditionnel mouvement syndical libre. La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 en \u00e9bullition piaffait d\u2019impatience devant les tergiversations de Bourguiba, r\u00e9calcitrant mais non hostile \u00e0 la d\u00e9mocratisation exig\u00e9e de tous. C\u2019est sur cette volont\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de voir s\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer ces pr\u00e9misses de r\u00e9formes, que se fit la large acceptation du coup d\u2019Etat m\u00e9dical, le 7 novembre 1987, promettant d\u2019aller plus vite et plus loin dans le r\u00e9formisme amorc\u00e9. En fait le coup d\u2019Etat n\u2019allait pas acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le processus, mais fermer pour deux d\u00e9cennies la fen\u00eatre de lancement. A dater de ce jour fatidique de novembre 1987, le sens de l\u2019Histoire allait s\u2019inverser sous le pr\u00e9texte fallacieux de la lute contre l\u2019islamisme. Au lieu du processus d\u00e9mocratique promis, allait se mettre en place inexorablement un processus lent et insidieux de mise en place d\u2019une dictature maffioso \u2013polici\u00e8re de la pire esp\u00e8ce. A l\u2019\u00e9poque aucun acteur politique ne le savait, et tous tant que nous sommes \u00e9taient loin de deviner ce que cet homme mal\u00e9fique nous pr\u00e9parait ainsi qu\u2019au pays. Mais aujourd\u2019hui, on sait et on peut reconstituer l\u2019ensemble de la trajectoire. Faisons le \u00e0 partir de la grille de lecture que le communiqu\u00e9 nous a sugg\u00e9r\u00e9. On peut dire que le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des services de renseignement Ben Ali a induit dans le pays en \u00e9volution, trois types de perturbations. La premi\u00e8re a touch\u00e9 les mots , les id\u00e9es et les valeurs .A force de double langage , de promesses, de subterfuges, d\u2019escroqueries en tout genre , Ben Ali a su entretenir dans le pays et \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger une confusion permanente sur la vraie nature du syst\u00e8me. Il a pu aussi perturb\u00e9 l\u2019opposition en la divisant, la manipulant, et la st\u00e9rilisant par le miroitement d\u2019un changement digne de l\u2019\u00e8re qui en porte le nom. Vingt ans apr\u00e8s, alors que tout le jeu est \u00e9puis\u00e9 et le roi compl\u00e8tement nu, des gens b\u00eates ou faisant semblant de l\u2019\u00eatre, continuent \u00e0 qu\u00e9mander, \u00e0 supputer dans le marc du caf\u00e9 des r\u00e9formes imminentes, \u00e0 atteindre le prochain remaniement et le prochain 7 novembre ou faire de l\u2019opposition dans le mouchoir de poche autoris\u00e9 et selon les r\u00e8gles que le dictateur change en permanence \u00e0 son avantage. La seconde perturbation a frapp\u00e9 de plein fouet les rouages de l\u2019Etat conquis de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur. Certes l\u2019Etat de Bourguiba \u00e9tait autoritaire mais il \u00e9tait aussi honn\u00eate, patriotique et d\u00e9volu au service public. A partir de 1987 (prise de pouvoir de Ben Ali), et de fa\u00e7on planifi\u00e9e, le fonctionnement normal des partis, de la presse , de la culture , de l\u2019information , de la vie associative , voire de la police et de la justice , et des douanes a \u00e9t\u00e9 soit bloqu\u00e9, soit perverti pour servir le pouvoir personnel et les int\u00e9r\u00eats cat\u00e9goriels. La troisi\u00e8me perturbation a port\u00e9 sur l\u2019\u00e9conomie. Jamais canular n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 mieux vendu que celui du \u00ab\u00a0miracle \u00e9conomique tunisien\u00a0\u00bb sous la dictature. Un taux de croissance de 7 % depuis les ann\u00e9es 1960, un peuple industrieux, une \u00e9conomie diversifi\u00e9e, tel \u00e9tait l\u2019h\u00e9ritage de Bourguiba. On feint d\u2019oublier que si les ann\u00e9es 1990 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 des ann\u00e9es \u00ab\u00a0fastes\u00a0\u00bb,ce n\u2019est pas \u00e0 cause du dictateur mais le r\u00e9sultat de vingt ann\u00e9es d\u2019\u00e9ducation nationale premi\u00e8re priorit\u00e9 budg\u00e9taire et de planning familial . A l\u2019arriv\u00e9e, un peuple \u00e9duqu\u00e9 et une constante baisse de pression sur le march\u00e9 du logement et du travail. C\u2019est cette belle m\u00e9canique que le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Ben Ali a perturb\u00e9 en introduisant le loup de la corruption dans la bergerie du travail et de l\u2019\u00e9pargne. Ce fl\u00e9au associ\u00e9 dans l\u2019esprit du peuple \u00e0 cet homme et \u00e0 sa famille, n\u2019a pas simplement affaibli le syst\u00e8me bancaire, ruin\u00e9 d\u2019honn\u00eates commer\u00e7ants, brad\u00e9 pour une bouch\u00e9e de pain les entreprises nationales. Il a surtout perturb\u00e9 l\u2019image du travail en tant que valeur et gangren\u00e9 deux syst\u00e8mes qui faisaient la fiert\u00e9 des Tunisiens : le syst\u00e8me de sant\u00e9 et surtout le syst\u00e8me \u00e9ducatif. Aujourd\u2019hui, les \u00e9meutes de la faim du Sud, l\u2019effondrement de la classe moyenne, l\u2019arrogante richesse des parvenus, la d\u00e9sesp\u00e9rance d\u2019une jeunesse qui ne r\u00eave que de partir, m\u00eame sur le bateau de la mort, ont d\u00e9finitivement enterr\u00e9 ce mythe savamment entretenu. Tout cela est maintenant parfaitement admis sauf par ceux qui ont int\u00e9r\u00eat \u00e0 faire les sourds et les aveugles. Ce qui reste nimb\u00e9 de myst\u00e8re, c\u2019est la quantit\u00e9 de souffrance que cette dictature a inflig\u00e9 au pays. Qui peut quantifier la douleur des parents de \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9ment perturbateur\u00a0\u00bb, de tous les tortur\u00e9s, les exil\u00e9s, les condamn\u00e9s \u00e0 vivre dans la peur et le d\u00e9sespoir. Oui, Monsieur Sarkozy, les perturbations profondes induites par cet homme, \u00e0 qui vous avez apport\u00e9 r\u00e9cemment un soutien total et que vous voyez pi\u00e8ce ma\u00eetresse dans votre beau projet d\u2019Union m\u00e9diterran\u00e9enne, sont catastrophiques pour notre peuple et h\u00e9las irr\u00e9m\u00e9diables pour un certain Hafnaoui Ben Ridha Bel Hafnaoui, mort au seuil de ses vingt ans. Lui, mort sous les balles de Ben Ali, n\u2019aura pas la \u00ab\u00a0chance\u00a0\u00bb de conna\u00eetre l\u2019Union m\u00e9diterran\u00e9enne, dont vous \u00eates pourtant le promoteur. De toutes les fa\u00e7ons, que personne ne se fasse d\u2019illusions sur le devenir de cet homme et de son syst\u00e8me. Les peuples, sont des organismes vivants. Ils peuvent souffrir longtemps d\u2019une infection, mais quand celles-ci ne les tuent pas, c\u2019est le virus qui a perturb\u00e9 leur sant\u00e9 qui finit t\u00f4t au tard par \u00eatre circonscrit. Le processus de gu\u00e9rison de la Tunisie est en cours et rien ne l\u2019arr\u00eatera. Moncef Marzouki Moncef Marzouki est m\u00e9decin, \u00e9crivain et homme politique tunisien. Il contribue par ses nombreux \u00e9crits \u00e0 construire un discours d\u2019int\u00e9gration de la d\u00e9mocratie et des droits de l\u2019homme dans la culture arabe. Site web de l\u2019auteur : www.moncefmarzouki.net <\/font>(Source: www.oumma.com le 9 juin 2008)<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n