Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-02-02-Speech-1-025"
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"Mr President, I should like to draw the European Parliament’s attention to the deterioration – if such a thing were still possible – of the human rights situation in Tunisia.
Since 11 December, Sihem Bensedrine, a well-known human rights defender and editor-in-chief of
has been the subject of press harassment and slanderous remarks that are absolutely intolerable and incompatible with the rule of law.
On 23 January, Mr Amin, who is the coordinator of the Maghreb Coordination of Human Rights Organisations, was refused entry into Tunisia.
On 28 January, Radio Kalima, which has been broadcast via satellite since that date, was completely surrounded. Its journalists were imprisoned, and those who came to their aid were manhandled in the street. This radio station is still being surrounded by the Tunisian police, with the result that freedom of information and expression are being undermined.
Tomorrow there will be the appeal hearing of the Gafsa workers, who are fighting against corruption and against their exploitation in this Tunisian coal mining area, with a denial of justice that we saw during the first hearing.
The heads of mission in Tunis are concerned about the situation; they have discussed it, and are perhaps discussing it at this very moment. They were meeting today.
I call on you, Mr President, to take a major political initiative in order to put a stop to these systematic human rights violations in Tunisia."@en1
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