[\u2026.] Nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 contact\u00e9s par des familles de nombre de prisonniers politiques qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9loign\u00e9s de la prison de Borj Er Roumi il y a neuf mois apr\u00e8s qu\u2019ils aient men\u00e9 une gr\u00e8ve de la faim pour exiger l\u2019am\u00e9lioration de leurs conditions d\u2019incarc\u00e9ration et leur lib\u00e9ration, notamment : Ka\u00efs Khiari d\u2019El Alia (Bizerte) : il se trouve au Kef Mohammed Ben Mohammed de Bizerte : il se trouve \u00e0 la prison de Saouaf Mohammed Trabelsi de Bizerte : il se trouve \u00e0 la prison de Gab\u00e8s Maher Beziouche de l\u2019Ariana : il se trouve \u00e0 la prison d\u2019El Hawareb (Kairouan) Karim Ayari de l\u2019Ariana : il se trouve \u00e0 la prison de Sousse Okba Ben Mohamed Nasri de Menzel Bourguiba (Bizerte) : il se trouve \u00e0 la prison de Messaadine (Sousse) Slim Habib d\u2019El Alia (Bizerte) : il se trouve \u00e0 la prison de B\u00e9ja. [\u2026] Pour le bureau ex\u00e9cutif de l\u2019Organisation Le Pr\u00e9sident Ma\u00eetre Mohammed Nouri<\/font><\/strong> (traduction d\u2019extraits ni revue ni corrig\u00e9e par les auteurs de la version en arabe, LT)<\/font><\/div>\n

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\u00ab Je condamne vigoureusement le blocus dont est victime le journaliste et \u00e9crivain Taoufik Ben Brick, et alors que bien des r\u00e9gimes de ce monde honorent les cr\u00e9ateurs et leur rendent hommage, dans notre pays, Taoufik Ben Brik tout comme Zyad H\u00e9ni sont humili\u00e9s, ce dernier qui est harcel\u00e9 pour s\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9lev\u00e9 contre l\u2019injustice qui a pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 aux attendus de mon proc\u00e8s inique. Depuis ma prison, je r\u00e9it\u00e8re ma solidarit\u00e9 avec le journaliste Mouldi Zouabi et je vous exhorte tous \u00e0 faire tomber le mur de la peur et \u00e0 hisser le drapeau de la libert\u00e9 face \u00e0 la tyrannie et \u00e0 l\u2019oppression\u2026 \u00bb<\/em><\/div>\n
Tels ont \u00e9t\u00e9 les termes utilis\u00e9s par mon mari lors de la visite que je lui ai rendue en ce matin du 9 ao\u00fbt 2010 et \u00e0 cette occasion j\u2019affirme : –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ma solidarit\u00e9 inconditionnelle avec tous les militants et les militantes de la libert\u00e9 dans mon pays qui vit le fanatisme –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Je vous appelle tous, en Tunisie ou hors de Tunisie, \u00e0 exiger la lib\u00e9ration de mon mari, le journaliste Fahem Boukadous et ses amis Hassen Ben Abdallah et les jeunes de Mdhilla, ainsi que l\u2019arr\u00eat des brimades contre les militants et les militantes. Pour ma part, je lutterai avec Fahem Boukadous pour son droit \u00e0 la vie et la libert\u00e9. Libert\u00e9 pour Fahem Boukadous Gloire \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2me du journalisme libre Afef Bennaceur<\/font><\/strong> (traduction ni revue ni corrig\u00e9e par l\u2019auteure de la version en arabe, LT) <\/font> \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Des personnalit\u00e9s appellent Ben Ali \u00e0 briguer un sixi\u00e8me mandat<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00ab\u00a0La Tunisie a encore besoin de vous pour g\u00e9rer ses affaires et veiller sur son avenir\u00a0\u00bb, adressent les signataires \u00e0 l’actuel pr\u00e9sident, au pouvoir depuis 23 ans.<\/font> \u00a0<\/p>\n
Plus de soixante personnalit\u00e9s tunisiennes de divers bords ont lanc\u00e9 un appel \u00e0 l’actuel pr\u00e9sident Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 74 ans, \u00e0 se repr\u00e9senter aux \u00e9lections de 2014 pour briguer un sixi\u00e8me mandat successif, selon une d\u00e9claration commune publi\u00e9e lundi 9 ao\u00fbt par la presse locale.<\/p>\n
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Cet appel aussit\u00f4t d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 par le parti d\u00e9mocratique progressiste<\/font><\/a> (PDP), principale formation de l’opposition radicale, intervient moins d’un an apr\u00e8s les \u00e9lections d’octobre de 2009 remport\u00e9es par pr\u00e8s de 90% des suffrages par l’homme fort de Tunis au pouvoir depuis 23 ans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Les dispositions en vigueur de la Constitution<\/font><\/a> limitent l’\u00e2ge maximum du candidat \u00e0 la magistrature supr\u00eame \u00e0 75 ans. Aussi, une nouvelle r\u00e9vision de la loi supr\u00eame serait-elle n\u00e9cessaire le cas \u00e9ch\u00e9ant pour permettre au pr\u00e9sident en exercice de briguer un nouveau mandat.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Mettre la Tunisie sur la voie de l’alternance pacifique\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n
Les signataires, des hommes d’affaires, d’anciens responsables politiques, des artistes, des m\u00e9decins, des journalistes, des avocats, des universitaire et des sportifs, exhortent le pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0poursuivre (son) leadership et (son) action afin de consolider davantage la stabilit\u00e9, le progr\u00e8s et la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb du pays. \u00ab\u00a0La Tunisie a encore besoin de vous, de votre vision perspicace pour g\u00e9rer ses affaires et veiller sur son avenir\u00a0\u00bb, opinent-ils.<\/p>\n
Pour le PDP, cet appel \u00ab\u00a0contrevient aux dispositions de la Constitution tunisienne<\/strong>, s’oppose aux aspirations des Tunisiens au changement d\u00e9mocratique et consacre le syst\u00e8me de la pr\u00e9sidence \u00e0 vie\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0La Tunisie n’a nullement besoin aujourd’hui de revivre une exp\u00e9rience qui l’a conduit \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 1980 \u00e0 une crise politique grave\u00a0\u00bb, avertit un communiqu\u00e9 de ce parti en allusion \u00e0 la fin de r\u00e8gne de l’ancien pr\u00e9sident Habib Bourguiba qui, en d\u00e9pit de son \u00e2ge avanc\u00e9 et de sa maladie, s’\u00e9tait proclam\u00e9 pr\u00e9sident \u00e0 vie.<\/p>\n
Il a invite l’actuel pr\u00e9sident \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0mettre la Tunisie sur la voie de l’alternance pacifique au pouvoir et assurer les conditions d’une \u00e9lection libre et transparente pour 2004\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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democ<\/strong> <\/span>On a le r\u00e9gime qu’on m\u00e9rite<\/font><\/strong><\/span>\n
En lisant des interventions notamment celles de \u00ab\u00a0amanitacitrina\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0sadrubal\u00a0\u00bb on conclue qu’elles sont \u00e9crites par les services secrets tunisiens ou des gens \u00e0 qui ce syst\u00e8me profite ou des personnes anormalement constitu\u00e9es. Comment peut on dire qu’un militaire arriv\u00e9 au pouvoir par un putsch et maintenu \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence par des \u00e9lections qui le donnent \u00e0 chaque fois vainqueur par les pourcentages d\u00e9biles de 99.99999% des suffrages qui a instaur\u00e9 la dictature qui compte parmi les plus violente du continent, peut il \u00eatre le sauveur de la TUNISIE. Personnellement \u00e7a me d\u00e9passe. Mais une chose est sure : la constitution sera chang\u00e9, Ben Ali se pr\u00e9sentera et sera \u00e9lu en 2014 et se proclamera pr\u00e9sident \u00e0 vie et \u00e0 la mort…n <\/div>\n
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Tunisienne<\/strong> <\/span>Une honte \u00e0 la d\u00e9mocratie<\/font><\/strong><\/span>\n
Encore une preuve que la Tunisie ne fait que reculer! C’est honteux de voir le pays aller vers un avenir sombre de dictature permanente! Malheuresement, il y aura soit Ben ali , soit un h\u00e9r\u00e9tier du tr\u00f4ne le gendre ou encore les fr\u00e8res de Madame! Comme si les mamans Tunisiennes n’ont pas mis au Monde des Braves gens -Hommes et Femmes- qui pourraient gouverner un jour la Tunisie! Pourtant, ce n’est pas les esprits intelligents dont manque la Tunisie! <\/div>\n
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Bienvenu<\/strong> <\/span>Ouf…<\/strong><\/span>\n
Enfin un pays d\u00e9mocratique… <\/div>\n
10.08 \u00e0 19h20<\/span> – <\/li>\n
amanitacitrina<\/strong> <\/span>@xpat…vous pr\u00e9f\u00e9rez sans doute…<\/font><\/strong><\/span>\n
..une r\u00e9publique islamique comme a GAZA ou r\u00e8gne un HAMAS qui y a impos\u00e9 la charia comme seule loi !….ne vous plaignez pas,car vous avez en TUNISIE un r\u00e9gime politique qui est de loin le meilleur d’afrique du nord…si BEN ALI n’\u00e9tait pas au pouvoir vous auriez a la place un \u00e9tat terroriste inf\u00e9od\u00e9 a l’iran des mollahs….CHOISISSEZ…la \u00ab\u00a0perfection\u00a0\u00bb en matiere de gouvenants n’existe pas…regardez chez nous !…. <\/div>\n
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xpat<\/span>Y’en a marre<\/span><\/strong>\n
Y’en a marre de Ben Ali.<\/font><\/strong> A ce point, il n’y a plus de personnes comp\u00e9tentes dans le pays. Il faut arr\u00eater de marcher dans cette route vers l’inconnu. <\/div>\n
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rainman73 <\/strong><\/span>R\u00e9p :<\/strong> que p\u00e8se le pdp?<\/font><\/strong><\/span>\n
\u00ab\u00a0que p\u00e8se le pdp? …En conclusion je ne vois aucune cr\u00e9d\u00e9bilit\u00e9 de ce parti et de ce que disent ses responsables….\u00a0\u00bb lol ben oui puisque c’est le seul parti qui n’a pas appel\u00e9 a vot\u00e9 ben Ali. et qu’on peu vraiment classer comme de l’opposition. Pouvez vous me citer les parties cr\u00e9dibles selon \u00ab\u00a0votre logique\u00a0\u00bb. <\/div>\n
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JOJOISBACK <\/span>FRANCE<\/span><\/strong>\n
Si le Pr\u00e9sident Nicolas SARKOZY (pbsl) pouvait briguer six mandats \u00e0 la suite, la FRANCE serait sauv\u00e9e pour de bon ! <\/div>\n
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rainman73 <\/strong><\/span>@sadrubal : <\/strong> bla bla bla<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/strong>\n
bla bla bla !<\/font><\/strong> Je vous rappel que ben Ali aura en 2014 , 78 ans un homme de 83 ans s’il arrive \u00e0 \u00eatre ind\u00e9pendant c’est d\u00e9j\u00e0 ca pour pouvoir gouverner comme vous dites. Je pense s’il arrive a man?uvrer une transition pacifique ca sera une bonne chose au lieu de faire la m\u00eame erreur que son pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseur Cela ne mets pas en cause le progr\u00e8s r\u00e9alis\u00e9 en Tunisie ni le faite que les personnalit\u00e9s qui ont fait cette appel ne sont pas des arrivistes. je vous invite aussi \u00e0 \u00eatre un peu plus calme et de ne pas transformer tout message en attaque personnelle et essayer d’\u00eatre plus objectif au lieu de s’int\u00e9resser \u00e0 mon orthographe. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
(Source: nouvelobs.com le 10 aout 2010)<\/font><\/strong> lien: <\/font><\/strong>http:\/\/tempsreel.nouvelobs.com\/actualite\/monde\/20100810.OBS8330\/des-personnalites-appellent-ben-ali-a-briguer-un-sixieme-mandat.html<\/font><\/strong><\/a> \u00a0<\/div>\n
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par Slim BAGGA<\/strong><\/font> A la fin des 70, un professeur d’anglais de retour de mission en Libye, dans le cadre de la coop\u00e9ration, racontait \u00e0 ses \u00e9l\u00e8ves de Terminales , dont j’\u00e9tais, cette anecdote tr\u00e8s instructive: un jour, il prit en flagrant d\u00e9lit un \u00e9l\u00e8ve de Tripoli, sa fausse copie sous les yeux. Sans la moindre h\u00e9sitation, il le sanctionna en le renvoyant de la classe et lui flanqua un z\u00e9ro. Le lendemain, le professeur se retrouva convoqu\u00e9 chez le censeur pour une explication et justifia son renvoi de l’\u00e9l\u00e8ve. Et le censeur libyen de lui lancer: \u00ab\u00a0Qu’avez-vous contre notre pays? Vous ne voulez pas que la Libye progresse?( \u0645\u0627 \u062a\u062d\u0628\u0634 \u0644\u064a\u0628\u064a\u0627 \u062a\u0642\u062f\u0645).<\/font><\/strong> Dans l’esprit du censeur, un 18\/\/20 obtenu frauduleusement par l’\u00e9l\u00e8ve est signe de progr\u00e8s… En Tunisie, o\u00f9 les ignorants au pouvoir sont encore plus nuls que le berger de Tripoli, dans les faits quotidiens de la mafia criminelle, tout est dans le discours mensonger. Le simple devoir citoyen de porter une critique vous envoie en enfer et vous fait accuser d’\u00eatre \u00e0 la solde de l’\u00e9tranger… Tout est dans l’apparence des textes, mais tout marche sens dessus- dessous par la volont\u00e9 du Prince, avec la complicit\u00e9 de ministres qui n’ont de ministres que le nom. Je d\u00e9fie d’ailleurs n’importe lequel d’entre eux, le Premier ministre compris, d’exercer r\u00e9ellement les attributions de ministre. Pions-d\u00e9cor, ils sont l\u00e0 \u00e0 ex\u00e9cuter les ordres pris suite \u00e0 des rapports de police ou des caprices d’un gang de voyoux. Prenons, pour cause de derni\u00e8re actualit\u00e9, le suppos\u00e9 ministre de la Justice, Lazhar Bououni. A moins d’avoir rat\u00e9 sa vocation sans le savoir, ce larbin exerce-t-il ses fonctions? Que Nenni! Dans une d\u00e9mocratie digne de ce nom, il aurait d\u00e9missionn\u00e9 sur le champ suite \u00e0 l’ordre venu d’en haut de muter \u00e0 Tozeur pour la deuxi\u00e8me fois en 30 mois la juge Kalthoum Kennou. N’importe quel b\u00e9b\u00e9 en droit sait que le principe d’inamovibilit\u00e9 du juge est une garantie d’ind\u00e9pendance de celui-ci. Mais dans la R\u00e9publique des l\u00e2ches, gouvern\u00e9e par des incultes \u00e9paul\u00e9s par des pions et des larbins complices, tout est permis, et tout le sera des ann\u00e9es encore tant que l’obs\u00e9quiosit\u00e9 et les bas calculs des clercs seront de mise. Sinon comment expliquer qu’au cr\u00e9puscule de leur vie, un Tahar Belkhoja ou un Chedli Klibi se retrouvent signataires d’une p\u00e9tition clownesque appelant Zinochet \u00e0 tordre le cou encore une fois \u00e0 la Constititution et exercer un sixi\u00e8me mandat? Tous savent que cette junte polici\u00e8re au pouvoir, cette mafia sans foi ni loi hypoth\u00e8que l’avenir de la Tunisie, mais ils ne se privent pas d’xercer leurs talents d’obs\u00e9quieux. Avec Tahar Belkhoja, le Rubicon a \u00e9t\u00e9 largement franchi depuis que\u00a0 dans la traduction de son livre ,\u00a0 \u00ab\u00a0Les trois d\u00e9cennies Bourguiba\u00a0\u00bb, en arabe, et page 54, la malhonn\u00eatet\u00e9 intellectuelle est all\u00e9e jusqu’\u00e0 attribuer \u00e0 Ben Ali une participation et m\u00eame une blessure lors de la bataille de Sakiet Sidi Youssef….Quelle pression politique pouvait justifier un mensonge aussi grossier? Malheureureusement, on ne se refait pas!!! Ainsi, dans cette R\u00e9publique des l\u00e2ches, il n’y a m\u00eame plus de retenue telle qu’avait pu observer un\u00a0 Ahmed Mestiri ou\u00a0 de la pudeur d’un Mohamed Mzali. Hier encore, \u00ab\u00a0El Hadath\u00a0\u00bb trainait dans la boue l’ancien ministre Tahar Belkhoja pour avoir publi\u00e9 un article pourtant mesur\u00e9 sur \u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb. N’emp\u00eache, il consid\u00e8re aujourd’hui selon le texte de la p\u00e9tition que \u00ab\u00a0sans Ben Ali, la Tunisie ne progresserait pas\u00a0\u00bb. Nous ne sommes pas dans le r\u00eave, nous vivons un cauchemar. Comment d\u00e8s lors s’\u00e9tonner qu’une Kalthoum Kennou et 100 autres Kennou soient malmen\u00e9es avec ses enfants? Pourquoi s’offusquer qu’un gamin comme Mohamed Zine El Abidine, con\u00e7u hors toutes les lois de la nature et de l’\u00e9thique, soit l’enfant\u00a0 sans h\u00e9ritage l\u00e9gal le plus\u00a0 fortun\u00e9 du monde? Pourquoi s’\u00e9tonner qu’une Nesrine Ben Ali soit \u00e0 la t\u00eate d’une entreprise de presse, sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e dans la p\u00e9dopsychologie, elle qui n’a pas franchi , comme son g\u00e9niteur, les bancs de la seconde? Les l\u00e2ches de cette R\u00e9publique en ruine, ministres-valets et maquignons de la pire facture sont les premiers complices de cette d\u00e9liquescence de l’Etat inconnue dans les livres d’Histoire. Ils doivent en r\u00e9pondre un jour autant que leurs ma\u00eetres et nos saigneurs…<\/div>\n
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Je me suis rendu aujourd\u2019hui \u00e0 la succursale de la Banque Royale \u00e0 Westmount pour encaisser un ch\u00e8que. La file d\u2019attente n\u2019\u00e9tait pas longue, donc je n\u2019ai pas eu besoin de sortir un livre de mon sac \u00e0 dos pour joindre l\u2019inutile (temps d\u2019attente) \u00e0 l\u2019agr\u00e9able (lecture). En attendant mon tour, j\u2019ai vu Sakhr Matri, l\u2019ultra-riche gendre du dictateur tunisien Haj Zaba, quitter le bureau d\u2019une responsable de la banque. Je n\u2019ai pas m\u2019emp\u00eacher de l\u2019interpeller: – ! \u0641\u0644\u0648\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0651\u0639\u0628 \u064a\u0627 \u0633\u0631\u0651\u0627\u0642\u0629 ( C\u2019est l\u2019argent du peuple, o voleurs !) – Qui es-tu ? – Je ne suis rien. Je ne suis qu\u2019un simple citoyen. – Tu n\u2019es qu\u2019un jaloux, d\u00e9gage pauv\u2019 con ! – Avec tout mon respect, il n\u2019y a pas plus que con que vous. Vous avez achet\u00e9 une villa \u00e0 Westmount pour 2 550 000 dollars et vous la laissez ferm\u00e9e toute l\u2019ann\u00e9e. Personne n\u2019en profite depuis trois ans. – Dans une \u00e9conomie lib\u00e9rale, comme celle du Canada, chaque citoyen est libre de faire tout ce qu\u2019il veut avec ses biens honn\u00eatement acquis. – Honn\u00eatement acquis ? J\u2019adore le sens de l\u2019humour chez Zaba Nostra ! – Heureusement que tu es \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al. Si tu \u00e9tais \u00e0 Tunis, mes gardes du corps t\u2019auraient mis en pi\u00e8ces avant m\u00eame de prononcer le moindre mot. – Je suis tellement heureux d\u2019\u00eatre loin\u00a0 de votre Zabaland. Mais je voudrais comprendre un chose: pourquoi avez-vous achet\u00e9 cette villa ? Votre clan n\u2019est pas s\u00fbr de conserver le pouvoir\u00a0 apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9part de Zaba ? – \u00c7a ne te regarde pas. Occupe-toi de tes affaires. \u00a0Soudain, une Tsigane qui apparemment \u00e9tait en train d\u2019\u00e9couter notre conversation, s\u2019est tourn\u00e9e vers Sakhr Matri et lui a dit d\u2019une voix chantante, sans quitter la file d\u2019attente: <\/font>Le petit prince ne montera jamais sur le tr\u00f4ne Du palais ils seront chass\u00e9s, lui et sa matrone. <\/em> <\/font>(Source: le blog d\u00b4Omar Khayyam le 8 aout 2010) Lien: <\/font>http:\/\/omarkhayyam.blogsome.com\/2010\/08\/09\/sakhr-et-la-tsigane\/<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Tunisia singer Saleem Bakkoush cancels Carthage concert<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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The popular Tunisian singer Saleem Bakkoush has been forced to cancel a concert at the annual Carthage festival, after a video surfaced showing him performing at a synagogue.<\/span><\/p>\n
Mr Bakkoush accused his rivals of publishing the tape to tarnish his reputation. <\/span><\/p>\n
Tunisia is one of only two Arab states with a sizeable Jewish community. <\/span><\/p>\n
But pro-Palestinian sentiments remain strong and the country has no diplomatic ties with Israel. <\/span><\/p>\n
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This was supposed to be Mr Bakkoush’s first appearance on the prestigious Carthage festival. <\/span><\/p>\n
But the sudden emergence of the tape showing him performing at the country’s oldest synagogue in Djerba has scuppered this unique opportunity. <\/span><\/p>\n
Mr Bakkoush said the recording was a few years old and suggested that his enemies had published it now to prevent the concert.<\/span><\/p>\n
Anti-Israeli sentiment in Tunisia – especially in cultural and artistic circles – was already running high following the emergence of another remarkable tape. <\/span><\/p>\n
It showed another popular singer, Mohsen El Sharif, performing at the wedding of a Jewish couple of Tunisian origin in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n
What angered people most in Tunisia was Mr El Sharif’s readiness to please the Israeli public by shouting \u00ab\u00a0Long Live Netanyahu\u00a0\u00bb, referring to the Israeli prime minister.<\/span><\/p>\n
He later tried to defend his action by saying that he thought that was the bridegroom’s name. <\/span><\/p>\n
Few believed him, and his critics have launched an internet-based campaign to have him put on trial and stripped of his nationality. <\/span><\/p>\n
Despite the strong support for Palestinians in Tunisia, a sizeable Jewish community has stayed in the country, while the bulk of Jews of Arab origin left the region some 50 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Harassment of journalists is gradually but steadily becoming the trend in Africa. In fact, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African regional affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), is extremely disturbed and concerned by the growing tendency towards enactment and enforcement of more repressive, complicated and legal sanctions against journalists.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
In Senegal, Cameroon, <\/span>Tunisia<\/span><\/b> and Burundi, journalists and their leaders face constant harassment and threats to their safety as part of a brazen campaign to curb the right to freedom of expression in Africa.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201dAfrican journalists are increasingly facing governments- inspired violence that is intended to silence the independence and credible voice of journalism. Increasingly, these assaults and campaign of elimination are also targeting human rights defenders and democratic forces that fight for journalists\u2019 and peoples\u2019 right to impartial and receive free information,\u201d says FAJ President Omar Faruk Osman.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
On 10 July 10, the Senegalese First Cabinet of the Regional Court of Dakar summoned Abdou Latif Coulibaly, Chief Editor of the Weekly Gazette<\/i> to answer charges of concealment of administrative and private documents. The judge ordered the indictment of the journalist but released him on bail pending conclusion of investigations. Senegalese journalists consider that the indictment, based on concealment of documents, constitutes in its content a serious attack to the principle of the right that guarantees under Senegalese substantive law an absolute protection for journalists\u2019 sources of information.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the most shocking and reprehensive case to be conceived by the government\u2019s prosecutors in their blatant attempts to manipulate national laws against independent journalism. This case, initiated by a private company and supported by the authorities, sets a negative precedent against investigative journalism. This mischievous, politically motivated and deliberate act of harassment against Abdou Latif Coulibaly must stop,\u201d Omar Faruk said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
In Cameroun, Alex Gustave Azebaze, First Secretary of the National Syndicate of Cameroonian Journalists (SNJC) and also IFJ Executive Committee member, Thierry Ngongang, Editor-in-Chief of the privately-owned Spectrum TV; Annani Rabier Bindzi, journalist at Canal 2 International TV and Dr. Aboya Endong Manasse, Editor of the bi-monthly newspaper Africa Top Secret<\/i> have collectively been facing a long, complicated, devastating and tiresome trial since January 2010. Their ordeal stems from their participation in a 2008 TV debate on the police investigations of the \u201cAlbatross\u201d saga, the failure to explain how a Boeing 727 purchased for the President\u2019s fleet was never received, six years after local journalists, led by Azebaze revealed the scandal while working for Le Messager.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cOur Cameroonian colleagues are held up and stranded in extremely dangerous and tiresome legal battle that meant to take away their time, energy and resources. Once they have been sufficiently worn down, they will be eliminated, freedom of the press will be further eroded and fear and self censorship will replace independent thinking in the hearts of media practitioners,\u201d said Omar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201dI reiterate our call for an end to these unjustifiable legal proceedings and once again demand the grave action of closing down their outlets be reversed and our colleagues are allowed to resume their normal and useful service to the journalistic profession,\u201d he declared.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the longest legal action journalists\u2019 union leadership faces in Africa and we will not close our eyes to this facade of sham legal action.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Zied El-Heni, member of the leadership of the National Syndicate of <\/span>Tunisian <\/span><\/b>Journalists (SNJT) and the Steering Committee of FAJ has been followed unremittingly and painstakingly by security operatives of <\/span>Tunisian<\/span><\/b>Government for defending freedom of expression and campaigning for the release of detained colleague Boukadous Fahem who provided coverage of the uprising in the mining region of southern <\/span>Tunisia<\/span><\/b>. He was summoned by the Crime Squad on July 23, 2010 to answer charges of defamation, though he was released after four hours of detention after he insisted and defended the legality of his writings that have not violated the code of the press. On <\/span>Tunisia\u2019s<\/span><\/b> National Day, July 25, 2010, Zied published an open letter to the district attorney in which he expressed his indignation at the manner in which the Crime Squad had been given leave to investigate a matter of opinion. The next day, the Crime Squad called him to their offices.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThese repeated and unrelenting attacks against union leader, Zied Elheni, and the right to free expression is one example of the gross human rights violation that ordinary<\/span> Tunisians<\/span><\/b> endure daily. Security operatives in <\/span>Tunisia<\/span><\/b> are a major threat to journalists and have been responsible for several attacks against journalists. The <\/span>Tunisian<\/span><\/b> government has a duty to protect its citizens from brutal elements in the security forces and must ensure that this assault of journalists stops with immediate effect.\u00a0 The continuing attacks on Zied El-Heni, an elected African journalist\u2019s leader will only increase global attention to the deplorable situation in <\/span>Tunisia<\/span><\/b>. Our message is clear: stop going after our colleagues and allow them to express themselves freely and fearlessly,\u201d the FAJ President stated. Journalist Jean Claude Kavumbagu, Editor of Net Press<\/i> news agency, Bujumbura, Burundi, was arrested from his office by Colonel David Nikiza, Police Chief in the western part of Burundi. He was arrested after he had published an article on July 12 in which he talked about<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Somali extremists group Al-Shabaab\u2019s threats to attack Burundi and was critical of Burundian security forces. He was charged with treason and faces life in prison if convicted. When he was arrested, the police did not follow the proper legal procedures of Burundi and he is being held in contravention of Burundi\u2019s criminal procedure code, which states pre-trail detention of the journalists for limited situations. Interestingly the law under which Jean Cloude is charged only applies during wartime.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThis has no other explanation except a deliberate misuse of state institutions to harass journalists. All laws were bypassed in circumstances that can only be interpreted as vindictive action by officers abusing their positions to settle personal scores.\u00a0 Jean Claude never committed such a serious act of betrayal of his nation and there is no point in charging him with treason. We feel that he will not have a fair trial and we want him freed immediately,\u201d Omar Faruk Osman said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
The Federation of African Journalists is committed to devising new strategies to tackle the increasing abuse of legal processes and wanton attacks by security operatives against journalists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
In Nigeria, the situation is hardly cheery. Though, with the contemporary situation, harassment of media men by government agents seem to have gone down considerably, there still obstacles on the way of the average Nigerian journalist. Apart from a frustrating working environment occasioned by irregular and in most cases unpaid meager salaries, he is increasingly becoming vulnerable to certain untoward occurrences in the society. Recent events concerning the kidnap of some officials of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), had in fact, thrown to the fore the mounting danger in the practice of the profession in Nigeria. The development had also exposed the vulnerability of the media practitioners to even the supposed ordinary people, who the average Nigerian journalist has shed sweat and blood in fighting for their cause.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
On Sunday, July 11, Wahab Oba, Lagos State Chairman of the journalists\u2019 body; Adolphus Okonkwo, Zone D Secretary; Sylvester Okeke, Secretary to the Union; Sola Oyeyipo, Lagos based journalist, and Azeez Abdulraf, driver of the team were kidnapped on their way from their National Executive Council meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom. They were only released a week later.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
While they were in captivity however, it fell on their friends, families and colleagues to bear the emotional pains of their absence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Theirs was just a case in the ordeals of journalists in Nigeria. There is no doubt among informed Nigerians that the Nigerian journalist and his profession are as a result currently under siege.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
On Saturday, April 24, Edo Ugbagwu, a reporter with THE NATION<\/i> Newspapers, was murdered by assassins in his sitting room in Lagos. Since the coming of civil government in 1999, danger for journalists has heightened.\u00a0 Incidentally the last two years and half have seen more assassination of journalist than the past 30 years put together. At least, assassins felled three journalists within that period. Abayomi Paul, a member of the Editorial Board of The Guardian<\/i> was killed in August 2008. In September 2009, Bayo Ohu, Assistant Editor in the organisation, was shot dead, while at home with his family.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
The hazards of journalists practice entered another phase, during the regime of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, when Dele Giwa, founder Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch<\/i> magazine was killed in a letter bomb, in October 1986.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
On December 22, 2006, Godwin Agbroko, 53, head of the editorial board of the THISDAY<\/i> Newspapers was shot in his car in Lagos. He was winner of PEN\/Barbara Goldsmith Prize in 1997. He was known to have edited many titles during the military era, from 1993 to 1999, and even though he was detained at least twice, there was no previous attempt on his life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
There was also the death of Tunde Oladepo, a senior correspondent with The Guardian<\/i> newspapers. He was at his home early morning in Ogun State when five masked men came into his house and shot him to death in front of his wife and children. Nothing was removed from his house leading investigator and analysts to conclude that robbery was not a motive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
The mounting hazards of what journalists go through can also be gleaned form the case of Bagauda Kalto, a journalist with THE NEWS<\/i> magazine who disappeared in 1996 in suspicious circumstances.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
As a result of incessant dangers that journalists face as a result of their profession, they had to organise a protest march in Lagos, the nation\u2019s commercial capital recently.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
On Thursday, April 29, the Abuja Chapter had petitioned the police commissioner in the Federal Capital Territory, John Haruna, over a new threat to journalists. This threat came in the form of a text message to Gbenga Aruleba, an Africa Independent Television (AIT) presenter and other colleagues because for doing their jobs.\u00a0 One of such messages read: \u201cGbenga Aruleba (AIT), Yusuf Ali (The Nation<\/i>), Olusola\u00a0 Fabiyi (Punch), Chuks Okocha (ThisDay<\/i>) all have no hiding place. U must be happy now that Prof. Maurice Iwu has been sacked due to ur bad stories and reports. We will deal wit u soon.\u201d The men were told to remember the fate of late Dele Giwa, Bayo Ohu, and Edo Ugbagwu.\u00a0 Sundry persecutions practised against journalists even dates back to the colonial era when the nationalists in the media were being hounded.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
There was also the case during the military era when a certain Amakiri was shaved by soldiers. There are Nigerians, who look at the hazards of the profession and the poor remuneration of journalists, and wonder why it is so. It is still quite incomprehensible to many, especially journalists, that a profession saddled with so much responsibility is neglected, while the journalists themselves who are making so much sacrifice for the growth of the country are so much neglected.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
It is intriguing, many observe, that journalists are not insured; not well paid, and upon that often owed salaries running into months in some media outfits. Explaining the feeling of a journalist in a time such as this, Anote Ajeluorou, of The Guardian<\/i> described it as being terrible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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09\/08\/2010 \u00a0 By David Byrd<\/strong> newly-formed writers’ syndicate in Tunisia is calling for the government there to provide more benefits for its members.\u00a0 The syndicate says some of its members are suffering from poverty, a lack of social security, and are without housing. The Syndicate of Tunisian Writers was formed last month to protect the rights of authors, poets and journalists whom it said were suffering from marginalization and exploitation.\u00a0 The syndicate held its first meeting in late July and dozens of its members attended.\u00a0 Ben Hassine Lassaad, the secretary general of the Tunisian Writers Syndicate, says that his membership is facing a crisis, \u00ab\u00a0We can’t deny that we have writers who aren’t working, writers who are suffering from poverty, writers without social security, without housing.\u00a0 Therefore, due to a lack of formal recognition, we’ve established our syndicate to defend these issues under the supervision of the Tunisian General Labor Union.\u00a0\u00bb The Syndicate is asking the Tunisian Ministry of Culture for jobs for unemployed university graduates in the field, free entry to cultural events and medical care.\u00a0 Tunisia’s government provides a large portion of the paper to print books, but writers say the publishers pocket most of the benefits meant to help authors. Mounir Ben Younes is a Tunisian poet who says paper meant for his books has been diverted for other uses, \u00ab\u00a0The Tunisian government provides support and encouragement by providing paper and by buying Tunisian works.\u00a0 But the problem is that the paper offered by the Ministry of Culture is used to print card wedding invitations or is sold. They don’t print books.\u00a0 I have had this experience – a publisher received paper on which to print my work two years ago, but hasn’t printed it yet.\u00a0\u00bb Jamila Mejri, President of the Union of Tunisian Authors, says writers in Tunisia are not as bad off as the syndicate believes.\u00a0 She says writers are employeed and publish multiples times a year. Lotfi Hajji, a journalist in Tunis, says, \u00ab\u00a0the Writers Union is more like a club for government-approved authors.\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 Hajji says writers who oppose government policies face possible seizure of their work or imprisonment. Hajji says he does not expect the new Tunisian Writers’ Syndicate will change the atmosphere in Tunisia.\u00a0 He says the syndicate was formed primarily for financial reasons, and he does not expect it to really take on the battle for freedom of expression.\u00a0 In Hajji’s words, \u00ab\u00a0It was financial concerns that were their priority.\u00a0\u00bb (Source: VOA News le 9 aout 2010) Lien: http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\/english\/news\/middle-east\/New-Tunisian-Writers-Syndicate-Calls-for-More-Support-100286654.html<\/strong><\/font> \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Tunisie : Le web dig\u00e8rera la t\u00e9l\u00e9 de Ramadan<\/font><\/h2>\n
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10\/08\/2010 Les \u00abaffaires\u00bb les plus retentissantes ont d\u2019abord \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9percut\u00e9es sur le web, avant qu\u2019un \u00e9cho assourdi ne parvienne aux canards de papiers. La t\u00e9l\u00e9 ? N\u2019en parlons pas : elle pr\u00e9f\u00e8re zapper ce que le Tunisien moyen consid\u00e8re comme \u00e9tant le plus croustillant. Ramadan est \u00e0 nos portes. Paradoxalement, le mois du je\u00fbne est \u00e9galement associ\u00e9 dans l\u2019imaginaire populaire, \u00e0 une indigestion tant alimentaire que t\u00e9l\u00e9visuelle. Une aubaine donc, que ne peuvent th\u00e9oriquement rater les annonceurs, pour saisir au vol un audimat malmen\u00e9 tout au long de l\u2019ann\u00e9e par les cha\u00eenes satellitaires. Parce que Ramadan, c\u2019est le mois que nos cha\u00eenes t\u00e9l\u00e9 nationales choisissent pour multiplier leurs efforts et pour pr\u00e9senter une grille de programme potable. De nouveaux formats publicitaires sont cr\u00e9\u00e9s pour l\u2019occasion. En plus des interruptions des spots qui tra\u00eenent en longueur, voici que la pub multiplie les incursions en s\u2019immis\u00e7ant au c\u0153ur des s\u00e9ries. Une garantie pour l\u2019annonceur, puisque le Tunisien moyen n\u2019est pas cens\u00e9 zapper \u00e0 l\u2019heure o\u00f9 il suit ses feuilletons pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9s, en ingurgitant ses gueuletons. La faim justifiant sans doute les moyens. Sauf que les solutions pr\u00e9conis\u00e9es par nos experts auto-intronis\u00e9s experts en chef \u00e8s-m\u00e9dias sont loin d\u2019\u00eatre garanties. En l\u2019absence d\u2019une source de v\u00e9rification scientifique et irr\u00e9futable de l\u2019audimat, les uns et les autres s\u2019\u00e9tripent all\u00e8grement (c\u2019est de saison), pour se mettre en avant, et proclamer qu\u2019ils sont les seuls vrais rois de la t\u00e9l\u00e9. Sauf que le \u00abt\u00e9l\u00e9consommateur\u00bb s\u2019en fout royalement. Tant qu\u2019il a sa dose de feuilleton. Et le big business ne sait plus toujours \u00e0 quel saint (t\u00e9l\u00e9g\u00e9nique) se vouer. cet \u00e9gard, la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision reproduit le sch\u00e9ma de la cacochyme presse imprim\u00e9e. Pas de tirages contr\u00f4l\u00e9s, encore moins de chiffres de ventes exacts et v\u00e9rifi\u00e9s, sans m\u00eame parler de p\u00e9n\u00e9tration dans le lectorat. En somme, on p\u00e9dale dans la semoule. Des petits malins ont su tout le b\u00e9n\u00e9fice qu\u2019ils pouvaient en tirer. Le flou (gu\u00e8re) artistique, permettant de vendre (et de casser) la cro\u00fbte. Il faut bien photographier son pain. C\u2019est bien connu, c\u2019est en temps de brouillard qu\u2019il arrive que les p\u00eaches soient miraculeuses. Pourtant, le paysage m\u00e9diatique international et tunisien en particulier (pour des raisons du reste tout aussi particuli\u00e8res) est en plein chambardement. Le web a conquis ses lettres de noblesses. Les \u00abaffaires\u00bb les plus retentissantes ont d\u2019abord \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9percut\u00e9es sur le web, avant qu\u2019un \u00e9cho assourdi ne parvienne aux canards de papiers. La t\u00e9l\u00e9 ? N\u2019en parlons pas : elle pr\u00e9f\u00e8re zapper ce que le Tunisien moyen consid\u00e8re comme \u00e9tant le plus croustillant. C\u2019est dire qu\u2019on reste frileux, m\u00eame en ces temps de canicule ramadanesque. Reste le web. Malgr\u00e9 les stratag\u00e8mes de certains, il demeure un m\u00e9dia relativement transparent. Les outils permettant de quantifier les acc\u00e8s \u00e0 un site d\u2019information sont nombreux. Certains sont m\u00eame \u00e0 la port\u00e9e du premier m\u00e9dia-planner venu, sans m\u00eame qu\u2019il ait besoin de recourir aux statistiques fournies par l\u2019\u00e9diteur en ligne. De plus, en l\u2019absence d\u2019un agent tiers apte \u00e0 certifier les visites, les sites tunisiens ont massivement opt\u00e9 pour Google Analytics, un instrument du g\u00e9ant du web \u00e9ponyme. Alors que la t\u00e9l\u00e9 a beau se taper les spaghettis, l\u2019huile, et les yaourts, on ne sait pas vraiment combien de je\u00fbneurs sont devant leur t\u00e9l\u00e9. De quoi remettre en question les vieilles recettes concoct\u00e9es par les services marketing pas tr\u00e8s port\u00e9s sur la nouvelle cuisine. Et si Ramadan a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 synonyme de boulimie, en Tunisie, c\u2019est la tambouille publicitaire qui squatte le petit \u00e9cran. Ce qui nous donne mati\u00e8re \u00e0 ruminer\u2026 et des envies d\u2019anorexie. (Source: tekiano.com le 10 aout 2010) Source:http:\/\/www.tekiano.com\/multimedia\/medias-et-satellite\/4-11-2524\/tunisie-le-web-digerera-la-tele-de-ramadan.html<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Un Isra\u00e9lien rentre au pays apr\u00e8s 5 mois de prison en Libye pour espionnage<\/font> <\/font><\/h2>\n
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AFP \/ 09 ao\u00fbt 2010 18h21 TEL-AVIV – Un Isra\u00e9lien, d\u00e9tenu en prison pendant cinq mois en Libye sous l’accusation d’espionnage, a regagn\u00e9 lundi son pays accompagn\u00e9 du chef de la diplomatie Avigdor Lieberman. M. Lieberman, s’adressant \u00e0 des journalistes \u00e0 l’a\u00e9roport international Ben Gourion pr\u00e8s de Tel-Aviv, a salu\u00e9 l’attitude de la Libye dans les n\u00e9gociations ayant abouti \u00e0 la lib\u00e9ration de l’Isra\u00e9lien Rafael Hadad, qui poss\u00e8de \u00e9galement la nationalit\u00e9 tunisienne. \u00ab\u00a0Ils (les Libyens) ont agi de mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s responsable. Je ne peux pas trop en parler mais leurs exigences \u00e9taient tr\u00e8s raisonnables et logiques\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il dit. Rafael Hadad a refus\u00e9 de r\u00e9pondre aux questions des journalistes. Il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 en mars alors qu’il prenait des photos d’anciens biens juifs en Libye pour le compte d’une Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d’histoire juda\u00efque bas\u00e9e en Isra\u00ebl. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9 et autoris\u00e9 \u00e0 quitter la Libye dimanche pour Vienne o\u00f9 M. Lieberman l’attendait. Ce dernier a dit que sa lib\u00e9ration avait \u00e9t\u00e9 le fruit de n\u00e9gociations compliqu\u00e9es et secr\u00e8tes. \u00ab\u00a0Il n’y a pas eu de fuites. Des dizaines de personnes \u00e9taient au courant\u00a0\u00bb de l’affaire rest\u00e9e jusqu’\u00e0 dimanche sous le coup de la censure sur ordre de la justice, a-t-il soulign\u00e9. \u00ab\u00a0C’est une personne priv\u00e9e qui s’est rendue (en Libye) pour les plus innocentes des raisons\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 de son c\u00f4t\u00e9 un porte-parole des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res isra\u00e9liennes Andy David. Selon les m\u00e9dias isra\u00e9liens, les n\u00e9gociations pour sa lib\u00e9ration ont \u00e9t\u00e9 men\u00e9es sous la houlette de M. Lieberman par l’interm\u00e9diaire d’un homme d’affaires autrichien, Martin Schlaff, r\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00eatre un ami de Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, fils du num\u00e9ro un libyen Mouammar Kadhafi. Isra\u00ebl avait aussi demand\u00e9 aux Etats-Unis, \u00e0 la France et \u00e0 l’Italie d’intervenir aupr\u00e8s des Libyens. En Libye, le journal O\u00e9a proche de Seif al-Islam a affirm\u00e9 que \u00ab\u00a0l’espion isra\u00e9lien avait \u00e9t\u00e9 expuls\u00e9 apr\u00e8s sa d\u00e9tention pour avoir photographi\u00e9 d’anciens monuments juifs \u00e0 Tripoli. Il \u00e9tait arriv\u00e9 depuis Tunis et avait aussi visit\u00e9 Benghazi et Derna (est). Il \u00e9tait pr\u00e9vu qu’il soit jug\u00e9 mais l’intervention d’un m\u00e9diateur europ\u00e9en a conduit \u00e0 son expulsion vers Vienne\u00a0\u00bb. Un responsable isra\u00e9lien, qui a requis l’anonymat, a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 \u00e0 l’AFP qu’Isra\u00ebl avait notamment accept\u00e9 en \u00e9change de cette lib\u00e9ration de transf\u00e9rer 20 maisons pr\u00e9fabriqu\u00e9es donn\u00e9es par la Libye \u00e0 Gaza. Elles seraient actuellement entrepos\u00e9es dans le port \u00e9gyptien d’Al-Arich. Le 15 juillet, un cargo d’aide libyen, qui avait l’intention de forcer le blocus isra\u00e9lien de Gaza, a finalement accost\u00e9 \u00e0 Al-Arich o\u00f9 sa cargaison a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9barqu\u00e9e. Isra\u00ebl et la Libye n’entretiennent pas de relations diplomatiques. La communaut\u00e9 juive en Libye, forte de dizaines de milliers de personnes avant la cr\u00e9ation de l’Etat d’Isra\u00ebl en 1948, s’\u00e9tait ensuite r\u00e9duite comme peau de chagrin. La plupart des 7.000 membres de la communaut\u00e9 rest\u00e9s en Libye avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9vacu\u00e9s en 1967 apr\u00e8s des \u00e9meutes anti-juives. M. Kadhafi a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9voqu\u00e9 une \u00e9ventuelle compensation pour les juifs contraintes d’abandonner leur propri\u00e9t\u00e9 en Libye.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rapha\u00ebl Hadad a \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9 lundi. Il \u00e9tait d\u00e9tenu depuis cinq mois en Libye, les services secrets croyant tenir un espion isra\u00e9lien du Mossad. H\u00e9las, l’homme n’est qu’un simple photographe.<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/a>\u00a0Muammar Kadhafi<\/span> <\/font><\/span>\u00a9<\/span> SIPA<\/span> <\/font><\/span>Rapha\u00ebl Hadad passe la fronti\u00e8re libyenne en mars, flanqu\u00e9 d’un passeport tunisien et d’un policier charg\u00e9 de le surveiller. Il a pour mission de photographier les vestiges architecturaux laiss\u00e9s par la communaut\u00e9 juive en Libye pour le compte de l’association isra\u00e9lienne Or Shalom.<\/font><\/p>\n
Le photographe de 34 ans, \u00e9galement po\u00e8te et guide touristique partageant son temps entre Tunis et J\u00e9rusalem, doit rendre compte de son activit\u00e9 sur le sol libyen. Il est sous surveillance constante. Jusqu’au quatri\u00e8me jour de son voyage lorsqu’il dispara\u00eet sans laisser de trace.<\/font><\/p>\n
Tripoli, nid d’espions ?<\/font><\/h3>\n
Dans les m\u00e9dias isra\u00e9liens, sa disparition ne fait gu\u00e8re sensation et suscite, au plus, quelques entrefilets jusqu’\u00e0 lundi, lorsque le grand public en apprend enfin davantage. Depuis cinq mois, l’homme \u00e9tait l’h\u00f4te des services secrets libyens, les Moukhabarat. Motif du s\u00e9jour : un long interrogatoire. Les sbires de Kadhafi pensaient tenir entre leurs mains une proie de choix : un espion isra\u00e9lien, membre du Mossad, l’agence de renseignement de l’Etat h\u00e9breu. Seulement, Rapha\u00ebl Hadad n’a jamais eu de lien avec le Mossad. Il n’est qu’un photographe un brin inconscient et excentrique. Et la prise des Moukharabat se transforme en un embarrassant paquet de probl\u00e8mes. D’autant qu’Isra\u00ebl n’\u00e9tait pas rest\u00e9 inactif.<\/font><\/p>\n
Durant la d\u00e9tention du faux espion, une v\u00e9ritable machine se met ainsi en marche. Isra\u00ebl contacte des hommes d’affaires libyens d’origine italienne puis s’adresse directement au pr\u00e9sident tunisien Ben Ali et au secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des Nations Unies, Ban Ki-Moon. Sans r\u00e9sultat. Le directeur du Mossad, Me\u00efr Dagan, intervient quant \u00e0 lui aupr\u00e8s des services secrets fran\u00e7ais, la DGSE, et italien. Son objectif : faire parvenir un message aux ge\u00f4liers du photographe : \u00ab\u00a0L’homme que vous d\u00e9tenez ne travaille pas pour nous. Il y a erreur.\u00a0\u00bb<\/font><\/p>\n
Faux espion contre vrai cargo<\/font><\/h3>\n
Restait surtout \u00e0 faire lib\u00e9rer l’espion qui n’en \u00e9tait pas un. Le ministre des Affaires \u00c9trang\u00e8res isra\u00e9lien, Avidgor Lieberman, entre alors en sc\u00e8ne. Il contacte un ami homme d’affaires, le milliardaire Martin Schlaff, \u00e9galement proche de Vladimir Poutine et de Muammar Kadhafi. Schlaff devient le n\u00e9gociateur d’Isra\u00ebl aupr\u00e8s du guide de la r\u00e9volution libyen. Mais le gouvernement de Tripoli va se montrer plus exigeant que pr\u00e9vu et va demander des contreparties \u00e0 la lib\u00e9ration de Rapha\u00ebl Hadad.<\/font><\/p>\n
A l’\u00e9poque, la fondation Kadhafi vient d’affr\u00e9ter le cargo Almath\u00e9a. Celui-ci doit se rendre \u00e0 Gaza afin d’apporter des tonnes de produits de premi\u00e8re n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 \u00e0 la population. Il doit donc briser le blocus isra\u00e9lien. Dans ce contexte, l’affaire Hadad offre donc un formidable atout \u00e0 la Libye. Tripoli annonce qu’elle lib\u00e9rera le photographe si l’Almath\u00e9a est autoris\u00e9 \u00e0 accoster \u00e0 Gaza City malgr\u00e9 le blocus sous l’objectif des cam\u00e9ras. Tel-Aviv refuse : le march\u00e9 est inacceptable. Mais le n\u00e9gociateur Schlaff va finir par obtenir un compromis : le cargo accostera en Egypte puis les marchandises seront achemin\u00e9es par voie terrestre. <\/font><\/p>\n
L’accord est donc trouv\u00e9 et, le 14 juillet, l’Almath\u00e9a accoste en Egypte. Le 16, ses marchandises arrivent \u00e0 Gaza. Et dimanche, le malheureux photographe, finalement bien utile \u00e0 la Libye, est lib\u00e9r\u00e9. De retour en Isra\u00ebl, il risque plusieurs ann\u00e9es de prison pour \u00ab\u00a0s’\u00eatre rendu en territoire ennemi sans autorisation.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb<\/font><\/p>\n
(Source: France-soir.fr le 10aout 2010)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n
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\n\n<\/div>\nIsraeli jailed in Libya praised for ‘cool’ demeanor upon return<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n
By Nir Hasson<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
10\/08\/2010<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
The Israeli who was freed after five months in a Libyan jail arrived in Israel yesterday on a flight from Vienna with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. <\/span><\/p>\n
The foreign minister praised the man, Rafael Haddad, for \u00ab\u00a0so coolly coming through an experience that was apparently not at all simple.\u00a0\u00bb <\/span><\/p>\n
At a press conference at Ben-Gurion International Airport, Lieberman thanked the Libyan government and his friend Martin Schlaff, the Austrian businessman who brokered the talks that freed Haddad, whom the Libyans had suspected of espionage.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0I want to thank everyone who helped,\u00a0\u00bb Haddad said after a reunion with his family, but he declined to answer questions from the media. <\/span><\/p>\n
People close to him said he did not look traumatized but that he had lost plenty of weight. <\/span><\/p>\n
In thanking the Libyans, Lieberman said: \u00ab\u00a0I believe it was not simple, but they acted responsibly. Their demands were reasonable and logical to meet.\u00a0\u00bb <\/span><\/p>\n
Lieberman said these demands involved measures to ease conditions for the Palestinians. \u00ab\u00a0We will do everything we pledged to do,\u00a0\u00bb he said. <\/span><\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0We should be happy that an Israeli citizen came home safe and sound,\u00a0\u00bb he added. \u00ab\u00a0Maybe that’s a good reason today for him and his family to recite the Redeemer’s Prayer.\u00a0\u00bb <\/span><\/p>\n
Haddad, who also has Tunisian<\/b> citizenship, was arrested in Libya in March. This came just before the end of a trip on which he had been sent by a Libyan Jewish heritage group, Or Shalom, to document buildings and remains of buildings from the heyday of the Libyan Jewish community. <\/span><\/p>\n
Haddad’s family began working for his release shortly after the arrest. Libyan-Jewish organizations in Italy got involved in the efforts, as did the Jewish community in Tunisia<\/b>. But Schlaff’s contribution proved decisive. <\/span><\/p>\n
Or Shalom had sent two other people before sending Haddad to document the buildings in Libya. <\/span><\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Development in Libya is huge and every day buildings are being destroyed,\u00a0\u00bb said Or Shalom’s chairman, Pedatzur Ben-Atia. \u00ab\u00a0As long as we can physically get there we have to document what’s left.\u00a0\u00bb <\/span><\/p>\n
Born in Djerba <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
Haddad, 34, was born on the island of Djerba off the coast of Tunisia<\/b>. He has organized culinary trips to Tunisia<\/b>for Israelis<\/b> and is a member of the international Slow Food movement. <\/span><\/p>\n
He studied in the high school yeshiva in Efrat and was a Military Police investigator during his army service. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
Haddad made the connection with Or Shalom at the end of 2009, when he was asked to reach the places where smaller Jewish communities had existed and his predecessors had been unable to reach. Ben-Atia said Haddad had fulfilled this task. <\/span><\/p>\n
Haddad’s family found out he was arrested from another prisoner, a young French citizen who was released about two weeks after Haddad was imprisoned. The family then began working toward his release. <\/span><\/p>\n
Or Shalom accused the Foreign Ministry yesterday of having leaked the arrest of \u00ab\u00a0an Israeli in North Africa.\u00a0\u00bb But the Foreign Ministry said the leak had come from Haddad’s family.<\/span><\/p>\n
Either way, the military censor did not allow details of Haddad’s arrest to be reported, at the request of the Foreign Ministry. <\/span><\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0We will certainly continue to try to get there,\u00a0\u00bb Ben-Atia said. \u00ab\u00a0There are plenty of people who want to close their eyes only after they’ve seen the synagogues.\u00a0\u00bb <\/span><\/p>\n
(Source: Haaretz.com le 10 aout 2010)<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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