[WSIS CS-Plenary] Tunisia post WSIS: Deportation of Swiss activist causes outcry

Wed Jul 5 23:46:43 BST 2006

Cher Ami, je sais que je vais te mettre dans
l'embarras,mais comme "defenseur des droits de
l'homme" je suis sur que tu auras le courage de
denoncer les massacres de civils,surtout des femmes et
des enfants perpetres par cette gangrene,cet etat
voyou ety terroriste d'israel sous complaisant de ces
etats dits democratiques et champignons(je voulais
dire champions)dans l'abus des droits de
l'homme.Lorsque j'ai lu ton courrier,j'ai tout de
suite compris que tu es un farouche defenseur des
droits de l'homme et que tu n'auras nullement peur de
defendre la cause juste de tout un peuple qui subit
toutes sortes d'exactions de viols,d'extermination'de
deportation;ce peuple qui vit sous les bombes et les
veritables armes de destruction massive.Jesuis sur que
tu ne te cacheras pas derriere ce pretexte historique
largement repare par la communaute internationale,qui
n'en fnit pas de le reparer d'ailleurs(allez demander
aux etats ,aux banques ,aux musees,et meme a la
SNCF....) sans parler de la souffrance des
Palestiniens tous les que fait dieu depuis SOIXANTE
ANS maintenant.Si je te dis cela  c'est parceque je
suis sur que tu n'en es pas au courant,sinon tu aurais
reagit et vigoureusement meme.je ne te voit pas passer
sous silence les massacres de civils:femmes,enfants et
personnes agees,ni les viols sur de petites filles qui
auraient pu etre les tiennes,sous le pretextes qu'ils
sont malheureusement Palestiniens et non suisses ou
encore allemands...europeens ou yankees.Tu vois mon
les nazis l'ont fait pendant quelques mois et
l'humanite(surtout les Palestiniens le payent de leur
vies depuis SOIXANTE ANS maintenant.Alors voila
,maintenant tu es averti, et je sais que tu ne
manqueras pas de courage pour denoncer ces viollation
s des droits de l'homme et ces crimes sionistes contre
l'humanite.N'oublie pas de passer le bonjour a tous
ces DEFONCEURS des droits de l'homme,ces defenseurs
des fossoyeurs de l'humanite en PAlestine comme en
Irak aujourd'hui,tout comme hier en Afrique du Nord,et
en Afrique toute entiere ou au Vietnam ...et partout
ou ils passes.Salutations.                            

--- Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> a
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> Deportation of Swiss activist causes outcry
> 
> The Swiss foreign ministry has condemned the
> deportation of a Swiss
> human rights activist by Tunisia.
> Yves Steiner, an official from Amnesty
> International's Swiss branch,
> was arrested on Sunday while attending a meeting in
> the capital, Tunis.
> 
> A foreign ministry spokeswoman on Monday criticised
> the action by
> police against Steiner as out of proportion.
> 
> She told swissinfo that the Tunisian chargé
> d'affaires in Bern had been
> summoned to explain the incident.
> 
> Steiner was attending a meeting of the Tunisia
> chapter of Amnesty when
> he was detained and told to leave the country. He
> was put on a flight
> to Paris, France, on Sunday evening.
> 
> The foreign ministry confirmed allegations that
> police in Tunis
> prevented Swiss ambassador Peter von Graffenried
> from intervening.
> 
> Steiner said that police in Tunis had given no
> reason for his arrest.
> 
> "It appears I'm considered a threat to public order,
> but I don't quite
> know what makes me such a dangerous person," Steiner
> told swissinfo
> after his return to Switzerland on Monday.
> 
> Steiner took part in last year's International
> Summit on the
> Information Society (WSIS) and, in his Amnesty
> capacity, has repeatedly
> accused the Tunis government of stifling the press,
> harassing rights
> activists and beating opponents.
> 
> The government of President Ben Ali dismisses such
> allegations. It
> insists that they are part of a smear campaign by
> its opponents and
> their allies abroad.
> 
> Crackdown
> 
> Steiner said he knew that he was not popular with
> the authorities but
> expected to be left alone after they let him enter
> the country on
> Friday.
> 
> "I think my detention is an attempt to put an end to
> my activities
> denouncing human rights violations in Tunisia and a
> further sign that
> the government is cracking down on its critics," he
> added.
> 
> Steiner said he felt intimidated and humiliated by
> police who arrested
> him without an official warrant.
> 
> Up to 50 police reinforcements were brought in after
> human rights
> activists initially prevented Steiner's arrest, said
> Amnesty
> spokeswoman Manon Schick.
> 
> Amnesty said it was considering taking steps against
> the Tunisian
> authorities. However it is concerned that legal
> action might jeopardise
> the work of human rights campaigners in the country.
> 
> It has condemned the incident and has called on the
> Swiss foreign
> ministry to intervene on a diplomatic level with the
> Tunisian
> authorities.
> 
> Strained relations
> 
> The deportation comes after relations between
> Tunisia and Switzerland
> became strained over an incident at the Information
> Summit last
> November.
> 
> During the opening of the summit, then Swiss
> President Samuel Schmid
> was censored by Tunisian state television for
> harshly criticising
> states that muzzle civil liberties.
> 
> The Swiss authorities later summoned the Tunisian
> ambassador in Bern to
> complain about the treatment of the Swiss delegation
> in Tunis.
> 
> A meeting between Tunisian rights activists and
> Swiss Foreign Minister
> Micheline Calmy-Rey in Bern in December led to a
> further deterioration
> in bilateral ties.
> 
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