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Parliamentary question by Olivier Dupuis (NI) to the Commission and answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission
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WRITTEN QUESTION E-0646/03
by Olivier Dupuis (NI) to the Commission
(24 February 2003)
Subject: Smear campaign against Mohammed Charfi
Mohammed Charfi, an eminent professor of private law and former president of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (1988-1989), has recently been the target of threats from the imam of Kairouan, Abdehrrame Khlif (who was a Member of Parliament for the Tunisian ruling party between 1989 and 1994). The threats were first uttered in June 2002, in a sermon fanatical in the extreme, and have been circulating over the past few days in the form of a video recording. They are based on grotesque misrepresentation of Mr Charfi's words and amount to an out-and-out call to aggression. Mr Charfi, who served as minister of education from 1989 to 1994, has won a Unesco award and, among other things, is the author of an essay entitled "Islam and Freedom", which was published in France in 1998 but initially banned in Tunisia. After the ban was lifted last year, the pro-government press launched a smear campaign against him.
Is the Commission aware of the plight of Mohammed Charfi and has it asked the Tunisian authorities to explain why a long-running campaign of harassment and slander has been openly directed against him? Given that the Ben Ali regime is using the crackdown on the En Nahdha Islamic movement as a pretext for systematic assaults on fundamental freedoms, can the Commission remain indifferent to the government connivance that has allowed the imam of Kairouan to disseminate his intolerant fundamentalist imprecations? Does it not believe that it should employ every political and diplomatic means to demonstrate its opposition to the increasingly repressive tendencies of the Tunisian regime, thereby championing the democratic values underlying the EU-Tunisia Association Agreement?
E-0646/03FR
Réponse donnée par M. Patten
au nom de la Commission
(21 mars 2003)
La Commission suit avec préoccupation la grève de la faim de M. Hamadi Jebali ainsi que celles d’autres détenus dans la même situation. L’honorable parlementaire est informé de la position de l’Union et de la Commission en particulier au sujet des conditions de détention en Tunisie et des instruments à notre disposition pour améliorer la situation notamment des prisonniers politiques. (Cf. les réponses de la Commission aux questions écrites de l’honorable parlementaire E-0250/03 et E-0263/03 , E-3031/02 , et E-2526/02, E-2597/02 et E-2629/02 ).
L’Union par l’intermédiaire de ses chefs de mission à Tunis continue de suivre le mouvement de grèves de la faim dans les prisons tunisiennes, y compris la situation de M. Jebali.
La question d’une amnistie générale pour les crimes d’opinion commis entre 1980 et 1990 n’a pas été évoquée par la Commission avec les autorités tunisiennes.
Quant à M. Mohammed Charfi, la Commission n’est pas informée des faits que rapporte l’honorable parlementaire à son sujet. Elle n’a donc pas connaissance des actes et propos attribués aux autorités religieuses de Kairouan, mais cherchera des informations à ce sujet par le biais de sa Délégation à Tunis.
Quant au respect des valeurs démocratiques qui constituent un élément essentiel de l’accord d’association, la Présidence de l’Union, de même que la Commission qui est associée à celle-ci dans les tâches relevant de ces questions, poursuit son dialogue politique avec les autorités tunisiennes en faveur de leur application concrète en Tunisie.
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