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09/28/2011

Middle East: farewell to dictatorships and the death penalty

The approval by the UN General Assembly in December 2007 of the Resolution for a Universal Moratorium against Capital Punishment was a fundamental step forward not only for the anti-death penalty campaign but also for the affirmation of the rule of law and of those natural rights historically won and often written into national law but not always respected.

 

02/22/2011

LIBYA/BONINO: "ITALY SHOULD SUSPEND UNILATERALLY THE LIBYA-ITALIAN TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP"

 Statement by Emma Bonino, Vice President of the Italian Senate

03/14/2005

Tunisian dissident Zouhair Yahyaoui - who founded and ran satirical website TuneZine - has died at the age of 36.

Tunisian dissident Zouhair Yahyaoui - who founded and ran satirical website TuneZine - has died at the age of 36.

Relatives said he died in hospital of a heart attack, where he was taken after complaining of chest pains.

Zouhair Yahyaou
06/25/2004

Tunisia's Tangled Web Is Sticking Point for Reform

UNIS - Walking toward an Internet cafe in this balmy Mediterranean capital, Siham Bensedrine, a journalist and human rights advocate, quietly points out the secret police agent regularly assigned to watch her building.

She chooses a cafe at so
02/25/2004

U.S. raps Tunisia rights despite 'excellent' ties

Washington. The United States criticized Tunisia on Wednesday for its poor human rights record while hailing what it called excellent relations with the North African country, an ally in Washington's war on terrorism.

In its annual
02/18/2004

Undemocratic Tunisia

Last fall, President Bush declared that Washington had learned the folly of accommodating Middle East dictatorships in the name of stability and that America would start putting its power in the service of democratic values throughout the region. Tod
01/19/2004

TUNISIA: THE FAILURE OF THE TUNISIAN AUTHORITIES TO RESPECT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CLAUSE SHOULD LEAD THE COMMISSION TO ESTABLISH A SERIES OF MEASURES OF RETORSION

Brussels, 19 January 2004. According to various sources, since the beginning of January there has been an upsurge in acts of violence and intimidation against human rights activists by the Tunisian regime. On 3 January, Hammad Ali Bedoui, a member of
07/24/2003

Parliamentary question E-2554/03 by Marco Cappato (NI) to the Commission and answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission



Parliamentary questions
WRITTEN QUESTION E-2554/03
by Marco Cappato (NI) to the Commission
(24 July 2003)

Subject: The Tunisian journalist Abdallah Zouari

The court in the Tunisian town of Zarzis sentenced th
07/22/2003

Tunisian journalist sentenced to four months for defamation

TUNISIA. A court in the Tunisian city of Zarzis on July 18 sentenced journalist Abdallah Zouari to four months in jail. The court held that the journalist’s complaint about being barred from using a cybercafe amounted to “defamation” against the mana
06/19/2003

Parliamentary question by Olivier Dupuis (NI) to the Commission and answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission



Parliamentary questions
WRITTEN QUESTION E-2181/03
by Olivier Dupuis (NI) to the Commission
(19 June 2003)

Subject: Thirty-fifth day of the hunger strike by the cyber-dissident Zouhair Yahyaoui

Zouhair Yahyaoui h
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