[WSIS CS-Plenary] news: riot police surround protestors

[Vérité-Action]

Les grévistes ont cessé leur grève

Dans un contact téléphonique avec Me Samir Dilou, nous avons appris que les
grévistes ont organisé ce matin une conférence de presse et de grandes
émeutes sont sorties dans la rue Habib Bourguiba et les forces de l'ordre
ont essayer de les encercler pour les empêcher d'avancer. Il n'y a pas eu de
confrontations avec la police.
Lors de la conférence de presse, les grévistes ont annoncé l'arrêt de la
grève tout en se mettant d'accord à mettre en place un comité composé des
huit grévistes et d'autres personnalités qui seront choisies sur la base
d'un commun accord entre les grévistes et le comité national de soutien.
Suite à la conférence, les grévistes sont sortis du lieu de la grève
entourés d'une foule de gens venus les saluer.

18.11.05
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From: "Andy Carvin" <acarvin at edc.org>
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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:28 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] news: riot police surround protestors


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> Hi everyone,
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> Word is spreading rapidly that riot police surrounded protestors on Ave
> Bourghiba within the last hour or so. Here's the latest I've heard from
> the folks at the AMARC booth; please note that this is all second-hand
> information and unconfirmed.
>
> "[Nobel Peace Prize laureate] Shirin Ebadi had called on them yesterday,
> pleading with them to end their hunger strike - that they were needed in
> the struggle. So they were to announce a decision this morning, and
> there was to be a press conference this morning."
>
> "We hadn't heard anything more until half an hour ago [approximately
> 12:15pm local time]," they continued. "We were told that  - our
> colleagues that are covering it  had called - and that the people were
> moving out of [hunger strike] headquarters onto the street and onto
> [Avenue] Bourghiba, and that they were surrounded by riot police. And we
> are trying to get more information from them - it was very noisy and it
> was very difficult to hear when they called here. So we have other
> people who are trying to find out what was going on."
>
> I've posted it to my blog... Does anyone have any other information? -ac
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