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Archive for Kamel Labidi

Journaliste indépendant tunisien. Ancien directeur d’Amnesty International en Tunisie et ancien correspondant du journal La Croix dans le pays. Représentant du CPJ au Moyen Orient.

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Tunisia: “political vengeance”


The recent closure of the Université Libre de Tunis (ULT), Tunisia’s renowned first private university, and its suspension for three academic years, could have been foreseen.
The days of this pioneering institution, established in 1973, became numbered after the publication by its founder and director, Mohamed Bouebdelli, in September last year of a book critical of [...]


8Mar2010 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisia: Muzzling the muzzled


The six-month jail sentence handed to Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik by a Tunis court on 26 November was an attempt to settle scores against one of the most defiant critics of a regime that has been unrelenting in its determination to eradicate independent journalism.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s war on the independent press [...]


6Dec2009 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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Plundering Tunisia


No book seems to have spurred Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s notorious enmity towards critical journalists as much as this timely compilation of accounts of his second wife’s rise to political and economic influence and alleged involvement in corruption, at a time when, according to the two French investigative journalists who wrote it, his autocratic rule “nears its end” for health reasons.


29Nov2009 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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The Tragic Decline of Tunisian Media


“In the past, Tunisia made huge efforts to invest in journalism education. Unfortunately, the people who benefited from those efforts have been gradually prevented from serving their country according to the basic rules of journalism and ethics. Scores of skilled and honest journalists have been silenced and forced to leave their job or the country,” says Kamel Labidi


6Dec2008 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisian democracy: To hope or despair?


The release of 21 Tunisian political prisoners at the end of July, on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Tunisian Republic, provoked satisfaction among local and international human rights groups. However, no one ventured to describe the conditional liberations as a sign of softening on the part of President Zein al-Abedin ben Ali’s police s [...].

17Aug2007 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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Ben Ali’s dictatorship is creating more Islamists


The deadly clashes in the suburbs of the Tunisian capital between security forces and Islamist gunmen at the end of December and in early January took by surprise those who were under the illusion that an Arab autocrat of Ben Ali’s ilk could learn anything from Ibn Khaldoun. According to official sources, the clashes left 12 gunmen dead and 15 under arrest [...].

26Jan2007 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisia : independent but not free


Tunisia celebrates the 50th anniversary of independence this month, but hopes raised by the end of French rule and early reforms have long evaporated. The country is governed and owned by General Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. But opposition groups have begun to suppress their divisions and make an attempt at collective resistance. [...].

13Mar2006 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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La longue descente aux enfers de la Tunisie


L’élargissement, ces dernières années, du cercle des Tunisiens décidés à exercer malgré tout leur droit à la liberté d’expression et d’association est un signe qui ne trompe pas. C’est pourquoi l’historien Raouf Hamza recommande la construction de « petits espaces de réflexion » pour analyser les problèmes de société et les mécanismes de résistan [...].

2Mar2006 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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Stifled Tunisia gets a UN reward


No Arab ruler pays more lip service to democracy and press freedom, while simultaneously silencing critics and independent journalists, than Tunisian President Zein al-Abedin ben Ali. Addressing the state-run Tunisian Association of Newspapers Editors (TANE) and the Association of Journalists (AJ) recently on the eve of World Press Freedom Day, Ben Ali cla [...].

13May2005 | Kamel Labidi | 0 comments | Continued
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