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Tunisia: Traffic Police Takes Part in Oppression
Mohammed Abbo, Abdel Wihab Miatir and Radia Nasrawy Banned from Attending Human Rights Symposium
Cairo 22 Feb 2009
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information condemned the decision of Tunisian security forces to resort to a cheap trick: to ban three lawyers and human rights activists from participating in a symposium on "Political and Human Rights Activism in Tunisia, 2009." The traffic police detained them for several hours allegedly to document an infraction while the three activists were on their way to Benzert, only releasing them after they had missed the symposium.
The three human rights activists Mohammed Abbo, Abdel Wihab Miatir and Radia Nasrawy were on their way to the Progressive Democratic Party's premises in Benzert when the traffic police detained them for several hours, holding them captive until the time schedule for the symposium had passed. This is what in fact happened, but then the police alleged there had been a name mix-up.
ANHRI stated that this was a cheap trick adopted only by police regimes which resort to all possible means to prevent activists even from expressing their views in a human rights symposium. These regimes, ANHRI said, have not properly responded to calls to respect the law or human rights, but their repressive practices need to be exposed.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
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