\u00ab\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A young man with a receding hairline sat in a windbreaker, his hands nervously folded. He would give his name only as Abdel. In 2003, he was one of six men and boys charged with downloading subversive Internet files and trying to make a bomb in the southern town of<\/span> Zarzis. He was 17 when he went to prison and 20 when he was freed. The case became a national sensation, pitting a government wanting to show it was fighting terrorism against critics who claimed security forces were exaggerating Islamic threats and making arrests to impress the<\/span> United States.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0The police said I was a Salafi, a radical. I didn’t know what Salafi meant back then,\u00a0\u00bb<\/i> Abdel said. \u00ab\u00a0I was tortured. My face was paralyzed for a while. I signed some papers confessing to things, but I don’t really know what I signed. The police still follow me. I’ve noticed young Tunisians have changed a lot since I went into prison. They have gone to either radical Islam or criminal delinquency.<\/i>\u00ab\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Qabil Nasri stood the other day along a roadside near a pile of bricks on the outskirts of Menzel Bourguiba. Rain had come the night before; the fields were muddy, and the lake, separated from the<\/span> Mediterraneanby a rim of hills, was still.<\/span><\/p>\n The Greeks and the Phoenicians sailed these waters centuries ago. Then came the French and the Soviets, but the shipyards and the steel mill are not as busy as they once were, and young men gather in clumps at the Cafe Flamenco.<\/span><\/p>\n There was no coffee-shop idling for Nasri. In 2003, he crossed<\/span> Tunisia’s rugged terrain and was arrested at the Algerian border, where he was charged with belonging to a terrorist group. He said he wanted to fight with the Palestinians, but police said the leaders of his group were planning terrorist attacks in<\/span> Tunisia.<\/span><\/p>\n Nasri has remained defiant. Because his young face wears a light beard, most employers, under government pressure, will not hire him. He often violates parole by not reporting to police stations, each time spending a month in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n Discussing his frustration, Nasri paused as two men came across the field and tried to eavesdrop.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0In prison, the guards and interrogators insulted God in front of me,<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00ab\u00a0They wanted to take my religion.<\/i>\u00ab\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (Source: Los Angeles times le 30 novembre – repris par TUNISIA WATCH le 32 decembre 2007)<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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2007-12-14 14:39:35 – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – Bosnia has deported an Algerian national who was among hundreds of people stripped of Bosnian citizenship granted amid the chaos of the country’s civil war, an official said, according to a local newspaper Friday. The government said in August it was revoking the citizenship status given to more than 500 people during and just after the 1992-95 war by officials who bypassed regular procedures. Algerian national Atau Mimun, 37, had been given citizenship after coming as a Muslim volunteer fighter during the war, but his status was revoked and he was deported on Sunday, Dragan Mektic, an official of the Bosnian foreigners service, told Bosnian daily newspaper Nezavisne Novine. Mektic, who could not be reached independently, was quoted by the newspaper as saying the Algerian was considered a threat to national security. \u00abWe believe that he is connected with persons who are under surveillance for terrorist activities,\u00bb Mektic was quoted as saying, without elaborating. \u00abHe was deported to Algeria on Sunday. Bosnia was criticized after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States for allegedly granting citizenship to people who had links to international terrorism networks. The government responded by setting up a commission to review the cases of everyone naturalized since Bosnia’s 1992 independence. In total, 1,300 naturalization cases were reviewed by the commission, which made recommendations to the government on further action. The commission found that procedures were ignored in granting citizenship to hundreds of people from countries including Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Sudan and Russia. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Sahara : la reprise de la lutte arm\u00e9e \u00ab\u00a0droit l\u00e9gitime des Sahraouis\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n ALGER – La lutte arm\u00e9e est \u00ab\u00a0un droit l\u00e9gitime des Sahraouis\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 vendredi le secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Front Polisario Mohammed Abdelaziz \u00e0 l’ouverture du XIIe congr\u00e8s de ce mouvement qui revendique l’ind\u00e9pendance du Sahara occidental annex\u00e9 depuis 1975 par le Maroc. \u00ab\u00a0Nous menons une guerre de lib\u00e9ration juste qui se poursuivra jusqu’\u00e0 la r\u00e9alisation de ses nobles objectifs, quel que soit le temps que cela prendra et quelles que soient les manoeuvres des colonialistes, et quelles que soient les formes de lutte que les r\u00e9solutions internationales autorisent\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 M. Abdelaziz dans un discours rapport\u00e9 par l’agence alg\u00e9rienne APS. \u00ab\u00a0Ces r\u00e9solutions l\u00e9gitiment notre combat pour d\u00e9fendre nos droits par tous les moyens, par la r\u00e9sistance pacifique et par la lutte arm\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il ajout\u00e9. Le congr\u00e8s du Front Polisario s’est ouvert vendredi pour cinq jours \u00e0 Tifariti (550 km au nord-est d’Al-Ayoun), dans les \u00ab\u00a0territoires lib\u00e9r\u00e9s du Sahara occidental\u00a0\u00bb, en pr\u00e9sence de plus de 1.700 d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s et de 250 invit\u00e9s \u00e9trangers, a indiqu\u00e9 l’APS. C’est la deuxi\u00e8me fois depuis sa cr\u00e9ation en 1973 que le mouvement ind\u00e9pendantiste tient son congr\u00e8s dans les \u00ab\u00a0territoires lib\u00e9r\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb du Sahara occidental, apr\u00e8s celui de 2003. Le Maroc et le Polisario observent depuis 1991 une tr\u00eave supervis\u00e9e par les Nations unies, qui maintiennent dans ce territoire une force, la Minurso, pour l’organisation d’un \u00e9ventuel r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum d’autod\u00e9termination. M. Abdelaziz a par ailleurs renouvel\u00e9 l’appel du Polisario \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 l’Onu, aux membres du Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et aux membres de l’Union europ\u00e9enne, pour qu’ils assument leur enti\u00e8re responsabilit\u00e9 dans le r\u00e8glement du conflit du Sahara occidental sur des bases justes et l\u00e9gales\u00a0\u00bb. \u00ab\u00a0Le conflit sahraoui-marocain ne pourra trouver sa solution en dehors du cadre de l’Onu et de ses r\u00e9solutions appelant \u00e0 la d\u00e9colonisation du Sahara occidental, ainsi que l’application du droit \u00e0 l’autod\u00e9termination du peuple sahraoui\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il dit. Le Maroc et le Polisario ont engag\u00e9 depuis juin des n\u00e9gociations \u00e0 Manhasset pr\u00e8s de New York, sous les auspices de l’ONU, pour tenter de d\u00e9finir le futur statut du Sahara occidentaL. Une troisi\u00e8me s\u00e9rie de discussions est pr\u00e9vue du 7 au 9 en janvier prochain. Rabat pr\u00e9conise une large autonomie de ce territoire – une ancienne colonie espagnole – sous souverainet\u00e9 marocaine, alors que le Polisario exige un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum d’autod\u00e9termination laissant aux Sahraouis le choix entre l’ind\u00e9pendance, l’autonomie ou le rattachement au Maroc. (\u00a9AFP \/ 14 d\u00e9cembre 2007 19h44) <\/div>\n