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Amid Intense Security Siege.. Boukadous' Appeal On Four Year Sentence Adjourned.
Cairo, 24rd of February, 2010
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today, that the Court of Appeal of Gafsa adjourned the appeal hearing of the journalist and correspondent of “AlHewar” channel , "Fahim Boukadous".
Boukadous was sentenced to four years in prison in absentia on 11/12/ 2008, on false charges of involvement in criminal activity and promotion of publications disturbing to public order in Tunisia, as he was covering the extensive social protests of AlHaoud AlManjami in 2008.
The hearing was conducted in an austerity and repression. Police blocked all routes leading to court and security forces intercepted the civil society activists, jurists ,politicians and unionists and prevented them from attending the trial.
At the outskirts of Tunis, political police intercepted the activist Zakia Dhifaoui, the journalists Selim Boukhdhir and Mahmoud AlThawadi, and prevented them from reaching Gafsa to attend the trial. All three were forced back to the capital.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights said that the insistence of the Tunisian regime's on this repressive approach of imprisoning journalists and activists such as Zuhair Makhlouf , Taoufik Ben Brik and AlSadik Chorou ,charging them with fabricated charges, threatening them and the repeated aggression on them and their families, demands Arab human rights activists and journalists to takes a serious stand against the Tunisian authorities, being so full of rancor and revenge against opinion owners.
Relevant links
http://www.anhri.net/en/reports/2010/pr0113.shtml
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