<DIV>I don't know if this as been posted before but is sure something revelant of the hold of the tunisian regime got on the civil society associations for the freedom of expression.</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.75pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><v:shape id=_x0000_i1029 style="WIDTH: 0.75pt; HEIGHT: 3pt" type="#_x0000_t75" alt=""><FONT size=1></FONT></v:shape></SPAN><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><v:shape id=_x0000_i1030 style="WIDTH: 6pt; HEIGHT: 8.25pt" type="#_x0000_t75" alt=""><v:imagedata o:href="http://www.ifex.org/design/www/images-en/red-arrow.gif" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Ludvic\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image006.gif"><FONT size=1></FONT></v:imagedata></v:shape></SPAN><B><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><FONT size=1>LA FIJ SUSPEND L'ASSOCIATION DES JOURNALISTES DE TUNISIE APRÈS QUE CELLE-CI EUT DÉCERNÉ AU PRÉSIDENT BEN ALI UN PRIX DE LA LIBERTÉ DE LA
PRESSE</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><v:shape id=_x0000_i1031 style="WIDTH: 0.75pt; HEIGHT: 3pt" type="#_x0000_t75" alt=""><FONT size=1></FONT></v:shape></SPAN><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><FONT size=1>La Fédération internationale des journalistes (FIJ) a décidé de suspendre de ses rangs l'Association des journalistes tunisiens (AJT) et a recommandé son expulsion. Le Comité de direction de la FIJ avait fait part de sa consternation à la suite de la présentation, par l'Association, de sa « Plume d'Or » de la liberté de la presse au Président Zine le-Abidine Ben Ali lors d'une cérémonie à la fin de l'année dernière. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><FONT size=1>Le gouvernement Ben Ali est accusé par les groupes de défense de la liberté de la presse et des droits de la personne d'exercer des pressions sur les médias indépendants et de violer les droits des journalistes. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><FONT size=1>La décision, adoptée par le Comité directeur de la FIJ à Berlin le 7 mars, doit encore recevoir la confirmation du Congrès mondial de la FIJ, qui se réunira à Athènes en mai. L'Association tunisienne a été invitée à y interjeter appel. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><FONT size=1>L'action du Comité fait suite à des plaintes concernant l'impossibilité, pour l'AJT à défendre convenablement les droits des journalistes en Tunisie. Le Comité avait écrit à l'Association pour lui demander d'expliquer les raisons de son « absence de détermination à confronter les problèmes de liberté de la presse ». <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><FONT size=1>À la suite de la réponse de l'AJT, le Comité directeur de la FIJ a décidé qu'aux termes de sa Constitution, l'Association avait « agi de manière contraire aux principes ou aux objectifs de la Fédération », d'une manière susceptible de nuire à [ses] intérêts. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN lang=FR-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA"><FONT size=1>Le Comité directeur de la FIJ a fait remarquer que les journalistes indépendants faisaient de sérieux efforts pour apporter des changements au sein de l'Association. Le Comité encourage ce processus de changement, et maintient la réintégration possible dans la FIJ « lorsque les conditions le permettront ». <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><FONT size=1>IFJ Suspends Tunisian Journalists' Association After Press Freedom Award to President Ben Ali<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT size=1><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The International Federation of Journalists, the world’s largest journalists’ group, has decided to suspend and provisionally expel from membership the Tunisian Journalists’ Association (AJT) after recording its “shock and bewilderment” over the presentation of a press freedom award to Tunisian leader Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, whose government has been accused by press freedom groups and human rights bodies of putting pressure on independent media and violating the rights of journalists. <BR><BR>The decision, which was taken by the IFJ Executive Committee meeting in </SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Berlin</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> at the weekend, is subject to confirmation by the IFJ World Congress which meets in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-F
AMILY:
Verdana">Athens</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City></FONT><FONT size=1><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> at the end of May. The Tunisian Association has been invited to lodge an appeal against the decision at the Congress. <BR><BR>The IFJ Executive Committee action follows complaints over the failure of the AJT to adequately defend the rights of journalists in Tunisia, which have come under pressure during the 15-year rule of President Ben Ali, but was sparked by concern over the decision to award the Association’s “Plume d’Or” for press freedom to the president at a ceremony late last year. <BR><BR>The IFJ Executive Committee meeting in December called for an explanation and wrote to the Association asking for an explanation over the “lack of commitment of the AJT in confronting press freedom problems” and expressed “shock and bewilderment” over the presentation of the prize to Ben Ali. <BR><BR>A senior representative of the AJT addressed the IFJ Executive Committee in
</SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Berlin</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=1> and a letter was received from the Association’s president Mohamed Ben Salah. <BR><BR>However, the IFJ Executive Committee decided, without dissent, that under its Constitution the Association had “acted in a manner contrary to the principles or objectives of the Federation and in a manner likely to damage the interests of the Federation.” <BR><BR>In taking the decision, the IFJ Executive Committee also noted that independent journalists were making serious efforts to bring about change within the Association. The meeting wanted to further encourage this process of change, holding out the possibility of readmission to the IFJ at an early stage “when conditions permit.” <BR><BR><B>Further information: + 32 2 235 22 00</B> <BR><I>The IFJ represents over 500,000 journalists in more than 100
countries</I><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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