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INTERNET: HUNGER STRIKE TO DENOUNCE THE TUNISIAN SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE ARCH-ENEMY OF FREEDOM
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From 16 to 18 November Tunis will host the final session of the World Summit on the information Society convened by the United Nations. From 18 days, Ayachi Hammami (lawyer, Secretary General of the Tunisian chapter of the Human Rights League and member of the Democratic Iniziative Party), Mokhtar Yahaoui (ex-Judge, lawyer), Najib Chebbi (President of the Democratic Progressist Party), Hamma Hammami (President of the Tunisian Workers-Communist Party- not recognized), Lotfi Hajji (journalist, president of the Tunisian journalist trade union - not recognized), Mohammed Ennouri (lawyer), Samir Dilou and Abdelatif Hayedi have been fasting to denounce the oppressive and censoring regime of President Ben Ali and to launch a parallel Summit.
Statement by Marco Cappato and Marco Perduca, delegates of the Transnational Radical Party to the WSIS:
“We wish to express our solidarity to the Tunisian activists that have chosen nonviolence to raise international attention on the tragic situation concerning freedom of speech and political activity in Tunisia. Two years ago at the UN we denounced the inadmissibility of the convocation of a world summit on the 'information society' in a country where journalists are incarcerated and where State bureaucrats and Family friends have been awarded the management of Internet access and telecommunications. Today we urge all journalists that will participate in the Tunis Summit to interview those that are fasting in order to let the world know the real conditions of the Tunisian society that President Ben Ali will mobilize to offer a perfect spectacle to attendees, but that in fact is a potent enemy of the free circulation of information and knowledge”.
Statement by Marco Cappato and Marco Perduca, delegates of the Transnational Radical Party to the WSIS:
“We wish to express our solidarity to the Tunisian activists that have chosen nonviolence to raise international attention on the tragic situation concerning freedom of speech and political activity in Tunisia. Two years ago at the UN we denounced the inadmissibility of the convocation of a world summit on the 'information society' in a country where journalists are incarcerated and where State bureaucrats and Family friends have been awarded the management of Internet access and telecommunications. Today we urge all journalists that will participate in the Tunis Summit to interview those that are fasting in order to let the world know the real conditions of the Tunisian society that President Ben Ali will mobilize to offer a perfect spectacle to attendees, but that in fact is a potent enemy of the free circulation of information and knowledge”.
