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1st March 2007 - International Day of Action for Mohammed Abbou, Front Line, Human Rights Defendersposted on: 2007/02/28

Two years of detention for denouncing torture in Tunisia

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PRESIDENT BEN ALI

Président M. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Président de la République Palais Présidentiel Tunis

1 March 2007

Re: Mohammed Abbou, two years of detention for denouncing torture in Tunisia

Your Excellency,

I am writing to express my deep concern for the Tunisian human rights defender Mohammed Abbou, his wife, Samia Abbou and their children. Mohammed Abbou is an eminent human rights defender from Tunisia. He was arbitrarily arrested in Tunis on 1 March 2005, and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in April 2005. He was charged for publishing an online article, in which he criticized Tunisian prisons, comparing them to Abu Ghraib. According to family members who have visited him in prison he has been kicked and punched by prison guards and denied medical attention.

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1st March 2007 - International Day of Action for Mohammed Abbou, Front Line, Human Rights Defendersposted on: 2007/02/28

Two years of detention for denouncing torture in Tunisia

SIMPLY PRINT THE LETTER (OR YOU CAN USE IT AS A GUIDE FOR COMPOSING YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE) AND SEND IT TO THE TUNISIAN AUTHORITIES: EMBASSY IN YOUR COUNTRY

Find the address of the Embassy in your country here

PRESIDENT BEN ALI

Président M. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Président de la République Palais Présidentiel Tunis

1 March 2007

Re: Mohammed Abbou, two years of detention for denouncing torture in Tunisia

Your Excellency,

I am writing to express my deep concern for the Tunisian human rights defender Mohammed Abbou, his wife, Samia Abbou and their children. Mohammed Abbou is an eminent human rights defender from Tunisia. He was arbitrarily arrested in Tunis on 1 March 2005, and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in April 2005. He was charged for publishing an online article, in which he criticized Tunisian prisons, comparing them to Abu Ghraib. According to family members who have visited him in prison he has been kicked and punched by prison guards and denied medical attention.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner supports Tunisian human rights defendersposted on: 2005/11/17

17 November 2005 A press conference, on 16 November attended by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, at the Tunis headquarters of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), in effect, became the first unofficial meeting of the Citizens Summit on Information Technology (CSIS) The Tunisian government has systematically blocked the alternative summit’s preparatory meetings and planned workshops and events in flagrant breach of the right to freedom of expression and association. In doing so, the Tunisian Government has demonstrated contempt for the Geneva Principles* and for their obligations under the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and international human rights law.

Leading representatives of International and Tunisian Civil Society committed themselves to continuing the struggle for the basic rights to freedom of expression and association in Tunisia in front of the audience of over 200 journalists, diplomats and NGO members.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner supports Tunisian human rights defendersposted on: 2005/11/17

17 November 2005 A press conference, on 16 November attended by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, at the Tunis headquarters of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), in effect, became the first unofficial meeting of the Citizens Summit on Information Technology (CSIS) The Tunisian government has systematically blocked the alternative summit’s preparatory meetings and planned workshops and events in flagrant breach of the right to freedom of expression and association. In doing so, the Tunisian Government has demonstrated contempt for the Geneva Principles* and for their obligations under the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and international human rights law.

Leading representatives of International and Tunisian Civil Society committed themselves to continuing the struggle for the basic rights to freedom of expression and association in Tunisia in front of the audience of over 200 journalists, diplomats and NGO members.