Civil society organizations organize a rally in Paris to demand the release of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Tunisia.
The rally will take place on Saturday April 22, 2023, at 3 p.m., in front of the Fontaine des Innocents (Metro les Halles), in Paris, France. We reproduce below the press release announcing this rally under the slogan “No to the authoritarian drift of the regime”.
“Incarcerated for two months now, without any other form of trial and, most often, on false and fallacious grounds, many opponents and political leaders, as well as the media, are thus deprived of their most important rights. elementary.
Their “wrong” is to disagree with the political orientations imposed by the Head of State since July 25, 2021. All of them are victims of Decree-Law 54, a decree-law that draconizes freedom.
– Against the authoritarian drift imposed on the country and society;
– Immediate release of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience;
– For freedom of expression;
– No to the prosecution of journalists, for the freedom of the press;
– Repeal of the draconian article 54;
– Against hatred and racism in Tunisia;
Let’s make Eid a party for the inmates»
First signatories:
Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia (CRLDHT), Democratic Association of Tunisians in France (ADTF), Association le Pont de Genève, UNIT Association, 3C Collective, Federation of Tunisian Citizens of Both Shores (FTCR ), Union of Tunisian Immigrant Workers (UTIT), Al Jomhouri Party-France, Al Massar Party-France, Democratic Ettayar Party-France, Workers’ Party (Tunisia) (PT), section of France Support.
Associations: Acting for change and democracy in Algeria (ACDA), Assembly of citizens from Turkey (ACORT), Association Femmes plurielles (AFP), Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) Paris/IDF, Association for the Defense of the Rights of in Morocco (ASDHOM), Association of Moroccans in France (AMF), Association of Families of Sahrawi Prisoners and Disappeared – (AFAPREDESA), Association of Maghreb Workers of France (ATMF), CEDETIM/IPAM (Initiative for another ), Straight ahead, Right to housing (DAL), Solidarity Europe without borders (ESSF), Frantz-Fanon Foundation (FFF), Palestine Citizenship Forum (FPC), Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH), League for Human Rights (LDH), Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), Feminist Network “Ruptures”. International Response, SOS Racisme, International LGBTQ+ Solidarity, French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP).
Unions: General Confederation of Labor (CGT), French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT), Federation of United Trade Unions (FSU), Union Syndicale Solidaires, Union Etudiante (UE).
Parties: Together, Europe Ecology the Greens (EELV), Progressives Movement (MDP), New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), French Communist Party (PCF), Communist Party of Workers of France (PCOF), For a Popular and Social Ecology ( PEPS).
