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WORLD SUMMIT ON INFORMATION: FROM TODAY TILL THE END OF THE SUMMIT REPRESENTATIVES AND ACTIVISTS OF THE TRANSNATIONAL RADICAL PARTY WILL JOIN THE HUNGER STRIKE OF TUNISIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS WHO CALL FOR DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN TUNISIA
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Starting today and till the end during of the World Summit on Information that opens today in Tunis, under the auspices of the UN, representatives and activists of the Transnational Radical Party will begin a hunger strike in support of the initiative of Tunisian activists who, for over one month have been conducting a hunger strike to call on Tunisian President Ben Ali’ to enforce enact democratic reforms in their country.
Since October 10, 2005, Ayachi Hammami (Secretary General of the Tunisian section of the Tunisian League for human rights and member of the Party for the Democratic Initiative), Mokhtar Yahaoui (former judge, lawyer), Najib Chebbi (President of the Democratic Progressive Party), Hamma Hammami (President of the Tunisian Communist Party - non recognized), Lotfi Hajji (journalist, president of the Tunisian journalists trade union - non recognized), Mohammed Ennouri (lawyer), Samir Dilou e Abdelatif Hayedi, have been conducting a hunger strike with the following objectives:
- Respect of civil liberties for civil society organizations, political parties and the Tunisian media;
- Release of all political prisoners detained in Tunisian jails;
For the first time, members of the opposition who belong to groups both secular and religious in Tunisia are conducting a joint political action through nonviolent means.
“The hunger strike that we are promoting in support of the Tunisian activists – stated Matteo Mecacci, TRP UN Representative – is aimed at calling in particular on the Italian Government and its Minister Stanca – already in Tunis – and on all democratic Governments that will participate in the Summit, to openly express, also with concrete solidarity actions, their support for the objectives of the Tunisian hunger strikers. It would be another failure of the UN and of its democratic Governments, if those who are censored and deprived of freedom of information in Tunisia, would continued be ignored, or even censored, also by the UN, an organization that was founded on the values whose respect and implementation the Tunisian nonviolent movement is today calling for”.
The list of hunger strikers joining the TRP initiative is available at www.radicalparty .org
For further information 06-68979262; 347-9682837
Since October 10, 2005, Ayachi Hammami (Secretary General of the Tunisian section of the Tunisian League for human rights and member of the Party for the Democratic Initiative), Mokhtar Yahaoui (former judge, lawyer), Najib Chebbi (President of the Democratic Progressive Party), Hamma Hammami (President of the Tunisian Communist Party - non recognized), Lotfi Hajji (journalist, president of the Tunisian journalists trade union - non recognized), Mohammed Ennouri (lawyer), Samir Dilou e Abdelatif Hayedi, have been conducting a hunger strike with the following objectives:
- Respect of civil liberties for civil society organizations, political parties and the Tunisian media;
- Release of all political prisoners detained in Tunisian jails;
For the first time, members of the opposition who belong to groups both secular and religious in Tunisia are conducting a joint political action through nonviolent means.
“The hunger strike that we are promoting in support of the Tunisian activists – stated Matteo Mecacci, TRP UN Representative – is aimed at calling in particular on the Italian Government and its Minister Stanca – already in Tunis – and on all democratic Governments that will participate in the Summit, to openly express, also with concrete solidarity actions, their support for the objectives of the Tunisian hunger strikers. It would be another failure of the UN and of its democratic Governments, if those who are censored and deprived of freedom of information in Tunisia, would continued be ignored, or even censored, also by the UN, an organization that was founded on the values whose respect and implementation the Tunisian nonviolent movement is today calling for”.
The list of hunger strikers joining the TRP initiative is available at www.radicalparty .org
For further information 06-68979262; 347-9682837
