Home<\/span> – Accuei<\/span><\/a>l<\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fahem Boukaddous: Lettre \u00e0 l\u2019opinion publique Assabilonline: Taoufik Ayachi, journaliste, a \u00e9t\u00e9 agress\u00e9 violemment dans la banlieue de M\u00e9grine <\/font>TTU Monde Arabe: Tunis\/Doha – une affaire \u00e9pineuse Kalima: Le proc\u00e8s du journaliste Mouldi Zouabi ajourn\u00e9 <\/font>Kalima: Une d\u00e9l\u00e9gation de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile au si\u00e8ge du Parti d\u00e9mocratique italien Kalima: Le gendre du pr\u00e9sident d\u00e9croche un march\u00e9 avec le minist\u00e8re de l\u2019\u00e9ducation <\/font>AFP: Tunisie\/piraterie: une ran\u00e7on r\u00e9clam\u00e9e Reuters:\u00a0 Tunisia jails 23 over attacks, Iraq insurgency links <\/font>Tunisie soir: Le nouvel ambassadeur de Tunisie \u00e0 Doha pr\u00e9sente ses lettres de cr\u00e9ance The Gaurdian: Tunisia, our supposedly stable ‘friend’<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/div>\n Les observateurs s\u2019interrogent sur les intentions de la cha\u00eene qatarie Al-Jazeera, apr\u00e8s la diffusion, en ao\u00fbt dernier, d\u2019une s\u00e9rie d’entretiens de douze heures avec l’ancien secr\u00e9taire d’Etat tunisien \u00e0 l’Int\u00e9rieur, Ahmed Bennour, dans le cadre de l\u2019\u00e9mission \u201cT\u00e9moin de son \u00e9poque\u201d. La filature du journaliste de la cha\u00eene Ahmed Mansour et une tentative de vol de cassettes dans ses affaires personnelles ayant \u00e9chou\u00e9, le pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali s’est empar\u00e9 lui-m\u00eame du dossier, devenu une affaire d’Etat (voir TTU n\u00b0 662). Exil\u00e9 \u00e0 Paris depuis 1986, Bennour fait l’objet d’attaques r\u00e9guli\u00e8res dans la presse tunisienne. Ben Ali redoute que cet ancien secr\u00e9taire d\u2019Etat \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense puis \u00e0 l\u2019Int\u00e9rieur n’ait divulgu\u00e9, au cours de ses entretiens, des informations ultra-sensibles concernant les relations entre les services de renseignements tunisiens et ceux de certains pays \u00e9trangers, notamment le Mossad. Informations qui pourraient en g\u00eaner plus d\u2019un au Palais de Carthage, \u00e0 commencer par le Pr\u00e9sident. C\u2019est en tout cas l\u2019argument qu\u2019a mis en avant Ben Ali lors de son entretien avec l’\u00e9mir du Qatar, en visite \u00e0 Tunis le mois dernier, pour le convaincre de faire interdire le programme en question. Il aurait m\u00eame laiss\u00e9 entendre \u00e0 l’\u00e9mir que les r\u00e9v\u00e9lations de Bennour pourraient faire du tort aux autorit\u00e9s de Doha, compte tenu des relations qu\u2019entretient le Qatar avec Isra\u00ebl. Surtout si l\u2019on apprenait que le fils d\u2019un haut responsable qatari r\u00e9side \u00e0 Tel-Aviv. Depuis cet entretien entre les deux chefs d’Etat, l’\u00e9mission \u201cT\u00e9moin de son \u00e9poque\u201d avec Ahmed Bennour, pr\u00e9vue pour fin octobre, a \u00e9t\u00e9 report\u00e9e sine die. (Source: \u00ab\u00a0TTU Monde Arabe\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 LETTRE HEBDOMADAIRE D’ INFORMATIONS STRAT\u00c9GIQUES\u00a0 N\u00b0 666 – 11 NOVEMBRE 2010)<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n <\/strong><\/div>\n <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n <\/strong><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n <\/font><\/p>\n AFP 12\/11\/2010 | Les pirates qui retiennent le navire Hannibal II avec 31 membre d’\u00e9quipage ont r\u00e9clam\u00e9 le paiement d’une ran\u00e7on \u00e0 l’armateur tunisien GMT. Le navire battant pavillon du Panama captur\u00e9 dans l’oc\u00e9an Indien est la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 d’une entreprise sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e dans le transport des produits chimiques et p\u00e9troliers, la Gabes Marine Tankers (bien: Gabes Marine Tankers). Le montant de la ran\u00e7on n’a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9cis\u00e9. Le g\u00e9rant de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, l’homme d’affaires fortun\u00e9 Farid Abbas, n’a pu \u00eatre joint vendredi \u00e0 Tunis. Le bateau a \u00e9t\u00e9 captur\u00e9 jeudi par des pirates dans l’oc\u00e9an Indien alors qu’il faisait route vers Suez, avait annonc\u00e9 la force navale antipiraterie de l’Union europ\u00e9enne, Atalante. Le Hannibal II, qui transportait de l’huile de palme depuis la Malaisie, a \u00e9t\u00e9 attaqu\u00e9 \u00e0 environ 860 milles nautiques \u00e0 l’est de la Corne de l’Afrique, soit plus pr\u00e8s des c\u00f4tes indiennes que somaliennes, relevait Atalante. Hannibal II a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9tourn\u00e9 jeudi \u00e0 04H30 GMT par dix \u00e0 quinze pirates arm\u00e9s qui l’ont forc\u00e9 \u00e0 prendre la direction des c\u00f4tes somaliennes, avait pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 l’agence gouvernementale TAP. Les autorit\u00e9s tunisiennes ont affirm\u00e9 suivre \u00ab\u00a0heure par heure\u00a0\u00bb l’op\u00e9ration pour y mettre fin dans les plus brefs d\u00e9lais et pr\u00e9server la vie de tous les membres de l’\u00e9quipage. L’\u00e9quipage compte 23 Tunisiens, 4 Philippins, un Croate, un G\u00e9orgien, un Russe et un Marocain, selon Atalante.<\/font><\/div>\n <\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Reuters le 11-11-2010<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia has jailed 23 Tunisian nationals after six were found guilty of joining insurgents in Iraq and another 17 of plotting attacks in Tunisia, their lawyer said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n He did not give any details on what sort of attacks had been planned and said one of those found guilty was dead and another three were on the run.<\/span><\/p>\n Tunis has stepped up a crackdown on Islamic militancy since the introduction of an anti-terrorism bill in 2003, a process critics of the government say has allowed a harsher repression of the opposition at home.<\/span><\/p>\n The predominantly Muslim country is a secular state with close ties to the West. The United States and the European Union rely on closer cooperation with North African states to prevent attacks that may target Western countries or their interests in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0(One of the accused) Mohammed Akkari admitted that he fought U.S. troops in Iraq before being detained there and then released,\u00a0\u00bb Samir Ben-Amor, a prominent human rights’ lawyer who represented the 23 found guilty, told Reuters by telephone on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n However, he said one of those found guilty of joining insurgents in Iraq and undergoing military training outside Tunisia, whom he identified as Mejdi Zribi, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment even though he had died near the Syrian-Iraqi border under circumstances Ben-Amor could not specify.<\/span><\/p>\n He said only two of the men charged were actually present during the trial and three were tried in absentia.<\/span><\/p>\n Tunisian government officials were not immediately available to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n Lawyers say about 2,000 people have been arrested in Tunisia on charges of militancy since the anti-terrorism bill was enforced. The Justice Ministry says no more than 400 have been arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n Of the 23 found guilty in the latest case, six were jailed for between five and 20 years after being accused of joining insurgents in Iraq and undergoing military training outside Tunisia, Ben-Amor said.<\/span><\/p>\n In a second trial, 16 Tunisians were sentenced to two-year jail terms and another was given a 10-year sentence after being found guilty of forming a \u00ab\u00a0terrorist group plotting terrorist acts in the country\u00a0\u00bb, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/strong><\/div>\n Lors d’une c\u00e9r\u00e9monie officielle organis\u00e9e, \u00e0 Doha, M. Ahmed K\u00e9didi, a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00e0 Cheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani, Emir de l’Etat du Qatar, les lettres l’accr\u00e9ditant en qualit\u00e9 d’ambassadeur de Tunisie au Qatar. A cette occasion, Cheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani a fait part de ses sentiments de fraternit\u00e9 et de consid\u00e9ration \u00e0 son fr\u00e8re, le Pr\u00e9sident Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, se f\u00e9licitant des relations de coop\u00e9ration s\u00e9culaires \u00e9tablies entre les deux pays. Il a, \u00e9galement, salu\u00e9 le professionnalisme et la probit\u00e9 dont font preuve les cadres tunisiens exer\u00e7ant au Qatar, dont le nombre est pass\u00e9 de 4000, en 2008, \u00e0 9000 actuellement. Cheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani a charg\u00e9 le diplomate tunisien de transmettre ses sentiments de fraternit\u00e9 au pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique et ses souhaits, au peuple tunisien, d’un surcro\u00eet de progr\u00e8s et de prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9, r\u00e9affirmant l’engagement \u00e0 oeuvrer, de concert, en vue de hisser le niveau de la coop\u00e9ration bilat\u00e9rale. Pour sa part, M. Ahmed K\u00e9didi a transmis au Cheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani les salutations du Pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali et les sentiments de fraternit\u00e9 et de consid\u00e9ration que lui voue le chef de l’Etat, ainsi que sa volont\u00e9 de raffermir, de d\u00e9velopper et de diversifier les liens de coop\u00e9ration unissant les deux pays. (Source : \u00ab Tunisie Soir \u00bb le 11-11-2010) Lien : http:\/\/www.tunisiesoir.com\/politique\/111110-le-nouvel-ambassadeur-de-tunisie-a-doha-presente-ses-lettres-de-creance.html<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n The west’s search for Arab allies should not be at the expense of supporting political freedom within those countries<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I am standing in a cramped, three-room office in an unmarked building in central Tunis. I have been led here by Nejib Chebbi, the chairman of the <\/font>Parti D\u00e9mocrate Progressiste (PDP)<\/font><\/a>, the most credible opposition party in Tunisia. We have just finished lunch during which Chebbi discussed the week-long hunger strike he and Maya Jribi, the PDP secretary-general, had finished only the previous evening in protest at the government’s attempt to block publication of the latest issue of the PDP’s newspaper.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Chebbi is articulate, well-versed in international politics and thoroughly pragmatic. Indeed, he fits precisely the profile of the \u00ab\u00a0Arab democrat\u00a0\u00bb I’ve heard western political scientists pining after. Now standing in his party’s modest headquarters \u2013 which Chebbi says the government tried to seize recently to leave them with no place to organise \u2013 he politely shrugs off that the US and European embassies only privately express their support for his party. Instead he gestures across the room and states, \u00ab\u00a0if you want a picture of democracy in Tunisia, this is it.\u00a0\u00bb<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Since independence in 1956, Tunisia has been ruled by one party and two presidents \u2013 Habib Bourguiba and, since 1987, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. Though political rights have supposedly expanded in this time, Tunisians’ ability to actually exercise them effectively has been eliminated.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Today, foreign or domestic journalists who publish material that is seen as critical of the government quickly find themselves unable to work in the country. Similarly, Tunisians who join unapproved movements of any political shading are liable to find themselves followed by police and quietly dismissed from their job, while their family is harassed and they are perhaps thrown into jail or, worse, tortured.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n The government has accomplished pervasive control by constructing a fearsome security apparatus and an extensive system of patronage and bribes that is continually leveraged to maintain the support of those who might otherwise cause problems for the regime, such as judges and the country’s economic elite.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n The common view from outside is that Tunisia is stable. Because Ben Ali’s government has provided economic growth and avoided the violence of neighbouring Algeria, most Tunisians supposedly have acquiesced to the exchange of political freedom for economic and personal security. This view also forms the basis of a rather meagre argument from Tunisia’s allies as to why they are not more critical of the regime. Essentially, Tunisia is not creating any headaches for the west, and \u2013 in the post-9\/11 international order \u2013 can be relied upon as a western-friendly Arab regime that will co-operate on security.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n But that does not mean this surface-level \u00ab\u00a0stability\u00a0\u00bb runs very deep. Most Tunisians I spoke to expressed real apprehension about the future. Though Tunisia’s GDP grew steadily between the late 1980s and the mid-2000s, growth has slowed in recent years and unemployment has risen sharply. Economists suggest the actual (unpublished) rate of unemployment is around 25%, and possibly as high as 40% in the critical 18-25 age group.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n With ever-fewer outlets for discontented individuals to express their views, many fear the outcome could be a \u00ab\u00a0national drama\u00a0\u00bb, in which the west would be seen as complicit for not pressuring the regime to limit itself.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n It is not as if there are no democrats for the west to partner with in Tunisia. Widely respected individuals with a commitment to democracy do exist, and their support seems to be growing at the margins where the state has not yet learned how to effectively repress it. Chebbi, for instance, says public sympathy for the PDP has widened markedly since the mid-2000s when the party began using international satellite channels, Facebook and other new media sources to disseminate its messages.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n The party’s supporters also are becoming younger. During the September hunger strike, nearly 80% of the support calls received by PDP offices were from people in their late teens to early 30s, most of whom said they had heard about the protest on Facebook. The question, though, is whether Tunisia’s western allies will continue to stand silent while such individuals are arrested outside their embassy doors.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Chebbi told me: \u00ab\u00a0We are not asking international observers to act in our place. We are the actors, but we are asking for political courage from them, to issue statements, anything that shows a clear support for democracy …<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0I can understand that foreign states are not activists, they have to manage their political and economic interests … But in the case of Tunisia, what are the risks? \u2026 We are not a big country, we do not have a radical culture of Islam. We are an educated people. I think the chances to have a modern democracy in a country like Tunisia are great.\u00a0\u00bb<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Chebbi makes a strong point. Tunisia lacks the religious sectarianism of Iraq or Lebanon; it has a true middle class, there is no wide extremist religious current, and it has a largely positive attitude towards western institutions and culture. In social and economic terms, it is objectively one of the best cases for a democratic experiment in the Arab world.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n However, I didn’t have a satisfactory answer for Chebbi as to why his English-speaking friends in the US and European embassies could not be more forthcoming in supporting Tunisians’ own democratic aims.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Nearly a decade after 9\/11, the US and EU are still desperate to bring the Muslim world on side. Throughout this period, they have been courted by Arab autocrats who saw an opportunity to shore up support for their rule by promising to co-operate on security. Yet despite jumping into bed with these supposed friends, anti-western extremism has not demonstrably been lessened. Meanwhile, the Arab democrats eager to befriend us in places like Tunisia politely tell us they view our governments as hypocrites.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n If we truly want to improve the brand image of the west in the Muslim world, we ought to consider seriously whether our engagement in such countries is genuinely supporting the best outcome for their populations. Supporting citizens’ desire to pursue their own political aspirations \u2013 whatever those may be \u2013 by resolutely standing by political freedom would seem a basic start, and something I would argue is the only justifiable option in Tunisia.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n Source:\u201d The Gaurdian\u201d 11-11-2010)<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Lien:\u00a0 <\/span>http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/nov\/11\/tunisia-arab-allies-political-freedom<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/font><\/div>\n \n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/body><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Home – Accueil TUNISNEWS 10 \u00e8me ann\u00e9e, N\u00b0 3825 du 12.11.2010 archives : www.tunisnews.net\u00a0 Fahem Boukaddous: Lettre \u00e0 l\u2019opinion publique Assabilonline: Taoufik Ayachi, journaliste, a \u00e9t\u00e9 agress\u00e9 violemment dans la banlieue de M\u00e9grine TTU Monde Arabe: Tunis\/Doha – une affaire \u00e9pineuse Kalima: Le proc\u00e8s du 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Lettre \u00e0 l\u2019opinion publique<\/font><\/h2>\n
Taoufik Ayachi, journaliste, a \u00e9t\u00e9 agress\u00e9 violemment dans la banlieue de M\u00e9grine<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
TUNIS\/DOHA : UNE AFFAIRE \u00c9PINEUSE<\/font><\/h2>\n
Le proc\u00e8s du journaliste Mouldi Zouabi ajourn\u00e9<\/font><\/h2>\n
Une d\u00e9l\u00e9gation de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile au si\u00e8ge du Parti d\u00e9mocratique italien<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n
Le gendre du pr\u00e9sident d\u00e9croche un march\u00e9 avec le minist\u00e8re de l\u2019\u00e9ducation<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
Tunisie\/piraterie: une ran\u00e7on r\u00e9clam\u00e9e<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
Le nouvel ambassadeur de Tunisie \u00e0 Doha pr\u00e9sente ses lettres de cr\u00e9ance<\/font><\/h2>\n
Tunisia, our supposedly stable ‘friend’<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n
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