Agence Europe, 3/5/2000

The Chair of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Enrique Baron, has asked the Tunisian government to review its position on Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, who is on a hunger strike in protest of the decree by authorities of his country prohibiting him from writing and the refusal to renew his passport. Such measures are incompatible with Article 2 of the EU/Tunisia Association Agreement, writes Baron. Olivier Dupuis (elected on the Bonino list) has also once again denounced human rights violations in Tunisia, calling for the suspension (already requested, he notes, by MEPs Hélène Flautre and Harlem Désir) of this agreement which "has been transformed from a model agreement into a parody".

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