Tunisia bans human rights officials
Tunisia, Politics, 7/12/2000

The spokesman for the national council for freedom in Tunisia Munsif Marzouki said that the chairman of the international federation for human rights Patrick Buwdan and the representative for the International Amnesty were on Tuesday prevented from entering the Tunisian territories at the Tunisian airport of Carthage.

The two human rights activists explained that they were intending to visit Tunisia to meet with members of the Tunisian civil society and to take part in a press conference to be held by two women activists in the area of human rights.

Meantime, the International federation for human rights criticized " the use of power rather than dialogue" the Tunisian authorities embarked on. They said in a statement that three members of the Tunisian branch of the Amnesty International were prevented from entering the Tunisian territories on Tuesday morning upon they arrived from Paris.

The statement added " the International federation strongly protest against this measure which, regrettably shows, the great difference between the public address claimed by the Tunisian authorities about human rights and their actual practices."

The two human rights activists who were previously prevented from entering Tunisia, were supposed to meet officials in non-governmental organization, the Tunisian human rights league and the Tunisian society for democratic women. They would have also visited Nadia al-Hamami who on Monday afternoon ended her food strike she started June 28 to halt " pursuing her father, the leader of the Tunisian labor communist Party by the Tunisian authorities."

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