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Obvious violation of the human rights this morning in margin of
the SMSI By Frederic Dubois (co-ordinating of information, APC) while
writing of TUNIS, Tunisia • 14/11/2005

Under the eyes incrédules of participants in the world Summit
on the company of information (SMSI), of the journalists and defenders
of the Tunisian human rights are made hustle, insult, then to strike
violently.

Monday morning, November 14, 2005, 9h30, place from Africa in Tunis.
More than thirty policemen in plain clothes wait impatiently of the
international and Tunisian delegates, members of the civil company.
Omar Mestiri, director of the magazine in line Kalima
(http://www.kalimatunisie.com) and founder member of the national
council for freedoms in Tunisia (CNLT) are made take with part as of
her arrival on the spot where a meeting of the co-ordinating committee
of the Summit Citizen was to take place on the company of information
(SCSI). Watered blows and insults, Mr. Mestiri kept calms it, before
being able to demolish group of policemen in plain clothes.

The thirty men into civil were caught some initially in Om Zied, the
writer as a chief of the Kalima magazine, a publication which makes
investigations into the corruption, documents the infringements of the
human rights, raises the disfonctionnements of the legal system
Tunisian and made company. Vis-a-vis with an aggressiveness without
terminal on behalf of the authorities on the spot, Om Zied, member of
the CNLT, an organization supported inter alia by the Dutch section of
Amnesty International, spawning time a way towards a taxi and leaves
the places.

The police force shouts, hustles and tries to intimidate physically
the Tunisian journalists on the spot. When the members of ONG
international like Association for the progress of communications
(APC), Human Rights Watch, the Danish Institute of the human rights
and other representatives of the civil company try to interpose, the
police officers draw aside and hustle in their turn the international
delegates "They took to me, then strongly shaken at the time when I
sought to call with calms" explains Anriette Esterhuysen, executive
director of APC, exceeded.

"There are democracy in Tunisia, but that one, it is a bad seed"
shouts one of the police officers before coiling Omar Mestiri
of blows on the ear, then in the back. Several taxis are called then
an escape is possible.

This article is written of an apartment of the Passage district, in
center of Tunis, where the CNLT has its permanent seat. There, the
telephone is blocked, several sites are not even accessible. The
permanent one and researcher of the CNLT, the sociologist Sami Nasr
explains us that these measurements of repression are current thing,
but evokes that "this police brutality is particularly virulent
counters initiatives like the SCSI".

This event in margin of the SMSI, connected to this last but held
outside the exhibition centre, is an initiative Co-organized by of
ONGs independent Tunisian, the free press of international Tunisia and
ONGs. The event, which is strongly pressurized of the Tunisian
authorities, is concerned with questions raised in the SMSI but which
did not have resonance or of significant impact in the negotiations on
the governorship of Internet. Human rights and the freedom of
Received on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:59:07 +0000