The CNLTwarns against using the judiciary to prolong the League crisis

The National Council Of Liberties demanded the lift of all political and judicial decisions aimed at crippling the Tunisian League of Defence of Human Rights activities. The council criticized the cassation judgement issued recently after 8 years-period of security and judicial pursuits against the League administrative committee.
The council considered- in a communiqué issued on Tuesday 9 June- the judiciary contradictory during the last years because it annulled the 5th congress activities in 2000, and then in another occasion it issued summary decisions to ban all the League activities, but finally it returned to assign the elected administrative committee to prepare the next congress, and this means the acknowledgement of its legitimacy. The council stressed that the judiciary had been used to legitimatize political decisions, since the ruling party secretary general was the first who officially impugn the last congress. The Council expressed it anxieties at the probability of using this last decision as a means to prolong the League crisis in order to hinder its important role in civil society. The communiqué urged Tunisian authorities to make the coming elections an occasion for all associations to operate in public spaces without restraints and that the state should fulfil its international commitments.