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INTERNATIONAL PEN STATEMENT ON TUNISIA

On June 15, 2010, the Tunisian state rushed through a law which forbids their citizens criticizing Tunisia before foreign organizations and governments. To do so will be treated as treason and punishable by five years of prison. This is related to negotiations aimed at privileged Tunisian relationship with the EU.

Such a law is a challenge to international standards of freedom of expression.

The Committee of Translation and Linguistic Rights of International PEN, meeting in Barcelona, in the presence of the international President John Ralston Saul and the international General Secretary Eugene Schoulgin, condemns this law and calls for the following:

The EU must suspend any negotiations aimed at conferring an advanced status or any strengthened relationship on Tunisia. Indeed the EU should re-examine its existing agreement with Tunisia and insist that this law be struck down.

*The law in question is an amendment to Article 61 bis of the Tunisian Penal Code



Barcelona, June 17, 2010