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Human Rights Watch: Le gouvernement doit cesser de harceler des groupes \u00ab non reconnus \u00bb de d\u00e9fense des droits humains Human Rights Watch : Letter to Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali on the Detention of Samir Ben Amor<\/font> Abdo Maalaoui: Tunisnews : c\u2019est notre station, c\u2019est notre canal… Le Temps: Plus de 40 avocats pour plaider dans l’affaire de la bande arm\u00e9e \u00e0 Soliman<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Le Temps\u00a0: Sant\u00e9 infantile – La malnutrition, un probl\u00e8me qui se pose avec acuit\u00e9 dans le Sud-Ouest AP: France – Deux personnes soup\u00e7onn\u00e9es d’\u00eatre li\u00e9es \u00e0 Al-Qa\u00efda mises en examen<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Tunisie : Le gouvernement doit cesser de harceler des groupes \u00ab non reconnus \u00bb de d\u00e9fense des droits humains<\/font><\/p>\n

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La police avertit un avocat de ne pas travailler pour une association de soutien aux prisonniers politiques <\/strong><\/font> <\/div>\n
(New York, le 18 d\u00e9cembre 2007) \u2013 Les autorit\u00e9s tunisiennes devrait cesser imm\u00e9diatement leur harc\u00e8lement syst\u00e9matique d\u2019une association ind\u00e9pendante de d\u00e9fense des droits humains, sous le pr\u00e9texte qu\u2019elle n\u2019a pas de statut l\u00e9gal, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Human Rights Watch dans une lettre adress\u00e9e au Pr\u00e9sident Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.\u00a0 Cette lettre s\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8ve contre l\u2019arrestation par la police le 7 d\u00e9cembre de l\u2019avocat Samir Ben Amor, qui est un cofondateur et membre du comit\u00e9 d\u2019organisation de l\u2019Association internationale de soutien aux prisonniers politiques bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Tunis (AISPP). La police a rel\u00e2ch\u00e9 Ben Amor apr\u00e8s l\u2019avoir averti de cesser ses activit\u00e9s au sein de l\u2019AISPP, une organisation que les autorit\u00e9s ont refus\u00e9 de reconna\u00eetre l\u00e9galement, depuis sa cr\u00e9ation il y a cinq ans. Le droit tunisien pr\u00e9voit des peines d\u2019emprisonnement et des amendes pour les personnes actives dans des associations \u00ab non reconnues \u00bb.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00ab Cela en dit long que les autorit\u00e9s tunisiennes aient justifi\u00e9 leur refus de l\u00e9galiser l\u2019AISPP, parce que son nom impliquait que la Tunisie a des prisonniers politiques, \u00bb a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Sarah Leah Whitson, directrice pour le Moyen Orient et l\u2019Afrique du Nord \u00e0 Human Rights Watch. \u00ab Cette tentative de r\u00e9duire Samir Ben Amor au silence ne fait que souligner le fait que les autorit\u00e9s harc\u00e8lent les Tunisiens qui font remarquer que le gouvernement d\u00e9tient des prisonniers politiques. \u00bb\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Pour consulter la lettre de Human Rights Watch au Pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali, veuillez aller \u00e0 :\u00a0 http:\/\/hrw.org\/english\/docs\/2007\/12\/18\/tunisi17578.htm<\/strong><\/u><\/a> <\/div>\n
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Human Rights Watch letter to Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali on the Detention of Samir Ben Amor<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

December 18, 2007 \u00a0 \u00a0 President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali \u00a0 Palais Pr\u00e9sidentiel \u00a0 Carthage, Tunisia \u00a0 \u00a0 Dear Mr. President: \u00a0 \u00a0 Human Rights Watch is writing to protest the detention by police of human rights attorney Samir Ben Amor on December 7. We regard this detention as an effort to intimidate Ben Amor and other members of the International Association in Support of Political Prisoners (Association Internationale de Soutien aux Prisonniers Politiques, AISPP), a five-year-old independent, Tunis-based human rights organization. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

At about 9 a.m. that day, three plainclothes police visited the Tunis law office of Ben Amor and asked that he accompany them to the police station in Sidi B\u00e9chir, the Tunis neighborhood in which his parents reside. He refused on the grounds that they lacked a written summons as required by the law. The policemen then left. \u00a0 \u00a0 At about 10 a.m., Ben Amor left his office and began walking down on al-Jazira Street. Three plainclothes policemen intercepted him and directed him into a waiting vehicle. The men used no force because Ben Amor made no effort to resist. He later told Human Rights Watch he did not resist because he felt he had no choice but to go along. \u00a0 \u00a0 The plainclothesmen transported Ben Amor to the Sidi B\u00e9chir police station. There, the station commander informed him that Ben Amor had been holding meetings in his office. The commander did not specify to Ben Amor which meetings he was referring to, but stated that Ben Amor\u2019s activities on behalf of the AISPP were illegal, since the AISPP was an \u201cunrecognized\u201d association. Tunisia\u2019s Law on Associations provides prison terms and fines for persons who conduct activities on behalf of an \u201cunrecognized\u201d association. \u00a0 \u00a0 Ben Amor replied that he considered the AISPP a legal organization since under the law, an association obtains tacit legalization if it submits its founding papers to the interior ministry and gets no formal refusal within ninety days, as happened with the AISPP in 2002 \u2013 2003. \u00a0 \u00a0 According to Ben Amor, the police commander replied that this is a matter for the courts to decide, but that he merely wished to warn Ben Amor to cease holding meetings in his office and to stop his activities on behalf of the AISPP. The police presented Ben Amor a statement for signature describing the conversation. He refused to sign it and left the station. \u00a0 \u00a0 In a December 11 e-mail, Tunisian official sources confirmed to Human Rights Watch the reason for the summons but denied that the police had taken Ben Amor by force: \u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Mr Ben Amor was never \u00ab\u00a0taken\u00a0\u00bb to any police station much less \u00ab\u00a0kidnapped\u00a0\u00bb. He was simply asked to come the police station to be told that the so-called Association Internationale de Soutien aux Prisonniers Politiques is not a legal association. He had accepted to come and did come on his own volition. It all took place in normal circumstances. He left after the notification.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Human Rights Watch believes that contrary to this statement, the detention of Ben Amor appears to have been illegal and conducted with an implicit threat of force. Ben Amor had just one hour earlier told plainclothes police he would not obey their request to go to the station without the legally required written summons. Nevertheless, agents confronted him on the street an hour later and told him to get into a vehicle with them. He \u201caccepted to come\u201d only in the sense that he had reason to believe that the agents would use force if he disobeyed. At no time did they show a written summons that would authorize his detention. \u00a0 \u00a0 Second, regarding the substance of his summons, we believe that the AISPP has every right to operate as a human rights organization and that the authorities\u2019 refusal to consider it legal is nothing more than an effort to silence persons who document and expose human rights conditions in Tunisia. It speaks volumes that among the reasons authorities gave for refusing legal recognition to the AISPP during the appeal of their refusal was the fact that its name implied the existence of political prisoners in Tunisia. \u00a0 \u00a0 Moreover, Mr. Ben Amor has every right to pursue his peaceful work for the AISPP or any other human rights cause, including by hosting meetings in his office. \u00a0 \u00a0 The authorities\u2019 efforts to intimidate Mr. Ben Amor because of his human rights activity, and through him, other human rights defenders are an interference in their right to freedom of expression and of association, as guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Tunisia has ratified. Tunisia\u2019s Constitution guarantees these rights in Article 8. \u00a0 \u00a0 We therefore urge your government to cease all measures designed to hamper the human rights activities of the AISPP and its members. We are also concerned that the police carried out Mr. Ben Amor\u2019s detention on December 7 in an illegal manner and welcome any information you provide to demonstrate it was carried out in conformity with the law. \u00a0 \u00a0 We thank you for your consideration and welcome your response. \u00a0 \u00a0 Sincerely yours, \u00a0 \u00a0 \/s\/ \u00a0 \u00a0 Sarah Leah Whitson \u00a0 Executive Director \u00a0 Middle East and North Africa division \u00a0 \u00a0 Cc: Ambassador Mohamed Nejib Hachana, Embassy of Tunisia, Washington, DC \u00a0<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n
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