- 最新情報:
- 2023年12月22日
- 国名:
- チュニジア
- 対象者:
- アベル・ムーシ（女性）
- 期限:
- 2024年1月31日
- 配信日:
- 2023年12月22日
- UA No:
- 114/2023
カイド・サイード大統領の政敵アベル・ムーシさんが、次期大統領選に立候補する意向を示した数日後の10月3日、治安当局に拘束された。ムーシさんは、選挙プロセスに不透明なところがあるとして、間近に迫る地方選挙に関する大統領令に抗議する請願を出そうとしていた。彼女は治安部隊に拘束され、秘密の場所に連行された。2日後の10月5日、治安関連の申し立てについて当局の尋問を受け、そのまま公判前勾留されてしまった。ムーシさんは、平和的な表現・結社・集会の自由の権利を行使しただけであり、直ちに釈放され、すべての訴追は取り消されるべきだ。
弁護士のムーシさん（48歳）は自由デストゥリアン党（PDL）の党首を務め、サイード大統領の政敵でもある。2019年から2021年にかけては国会議員も務めた。弁護人によれば、拘束されたムーシさんの健康状態は悪化しており、11月28日に始めたハンストで体調はさらに悪化しているはずだという。
10月5日、ムーシさんは「政府の形を変える」、「暴力の煽動」などの容疑で取り調べを受けた。表現・集会・結社の自由の権利を平和的に行使しただけであるが、刑法第72条に基づき死刑を受けるおそれもある。
2021年7月21日、サイード大統領は2014年憲法が大統領に与えているとして非常事態を宣言した。2023年2月以降、野党議員数人が命を狙われるなど、チュニジアの人権状況は厳しい局面を迎えている。当局は、拘束した74人以上の野党関係者の取り調べを始めた。そのうち少なくとも44人が人権活動で罪に問われている。
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- ムーシさんの訴追を取り消し、釈放する。
- 釈放までは、家族や弁護人との接触を認め、また国際法に従った拘束状況に置く。
要請例文
President of the Republic Kais Saied
Route de la Goulette
Site archéologique de Carthage, Tunisie
Email: contact@carthage.tn
Twitter: @TnPresidency
Your Excellency,
I write to ask you to immediately release opposition figure Abir Moussi and drop all charges against her. Abir Moussi is being investigated for a range of offenses under the Penal Code and the Data Protection Law and is being held in Manouba’s women prison.
On 24 September 2023, Abir Moussi shared a press release expressing her interest in running in the next presidential elections. Just days later, on 3 October 2023, police officers arrested her in front of a public administration office annexed to the Presidential Palace after she attempted to submit an appeal against presidential decrees to the relevant administration but was prevented from doing so. Abir Moussi protested the arbitrary denial by insisting on staying in front of the administration building and live streaming this on Facebook.
According to eyewitnesses and her lawyers, security forces detained her and took her to an undisclosed location for about two hours before her legal representatives traced her to a police station in La Goulette, a neighbourhood in the capital Tunis. Abir Moussi's lawyers also told Amnesty International that she sustained physical injuries after the police used excessive force during her arrest. The lawyers said that the authorities had denied them access to their client during police interrogation, in clear breach of her due process rights, and were only subsequently informed of the prosecution’s decision to hold her in pre-trial detention after being in police custody for 48 hours. According to her lawyers, during her first night in custody, officers detaining Abir Moussi ignored her requests for medicine she is supposed to take at a precise time daily, which resulted in health complications that landed her in the hospital days later.
On 5 October, Abir Moussi was interrogated by an investigative judge at the Tunis Court of First Instance in relation to charges of seeking to “change the form of government”, "inciting violence on the Tunisian territory”, and “assault with the aim of provoking disorder” under Article 72 of the Penal Code, a conviction punishable by the death penalty, as well as under charges related to “processing of personal data without the consent of the data subject” and “interference with the freedom to work” under Articles 27 and 87 of the Data Protection Law. She was held in custody and after peacefully protesting the denial to access a public administration office annexed to the Presidential Palace on 3 October 2023.
Abir Moussi now faces the death penalty for exercising her right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Increased use of criminal law to prosecute opposition political activists in retaliation for their peaceful political engagements has cast a chilling impact on the civic space. On 28 November 2023, Abir Moussi’s lawyers announced that she started a hunger strike to protest her arbitrary detention.
I urge you to immediately release Abir Moussi and drop all charges against her as they stem from her peaceful political activism. Pending her release, she must be granted regular access to her family, lawyers and adequate medical care, and held in conditions that comply with international standards for the treatment of prisoners.
Yours sincerely,
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