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   Essid 2010-11-26

   While I would like to believe that this is a positive initiative, my experience as a citizen of the Maghreb leads me to believe that the commenter Anonymous is right. Generally, whenever you hear about our political leaders, particularly those leaders who occupy positions in the judicial branch, there are always two types of news: the official propaganda/official publicity, and the real-life experiences that the people you know relate to you or that the propaganda cannot hide. In the media we hear publicity about how the judges go to these human rights events. This would be wonderful news if the newspapers did not also report the wrongful sentencing of journalists. Of course, the courts’ verdicts against journalists are always painted in the light of “the journalist is a traitor.” However, most people are well aware of the reality. The journalist performed his duty honestly: he reported that an official was acting corruptly, that is to say, the official was abusing his public power for personal gain. The journalist was either too brave or too ignorant to realise that this corrupt official had corrupt security officers and corrupt judges in his patronage network, something that resulted in the corrupt official easily having the journalist imprison. The story is similar for many of the people who are imprisoned or worse in our country. I can think of over 8 journalists who have been wrongly imprisoned in the last two years in Tunisia, so it is hard for me to believe that this training session is anything other than a publicity stunt for judges.

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   Anonymous 2010-11-24

   What a joy to see human rights in such good hands! This explains the impartiality of Arab courts. All the parties involved in this training have the odour of sanctity about them compared with the concerned international human rights organisations. What bothers me is that the Nobel Prize for Human Rights has yet to be given to one of the leaders present at Hammamet, let alone their ensemble. A collective Nobel Prize for Human Rights would reward the efforts of our dear leaders.

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