Human Rights Watch writes to urge Dr. Ihsanoglu to use his position as Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to support measures at the upcoming Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal on March 13-14 that would improve and strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism. In particular, the OIC should consider two amendments to the Convention to narrow its overbroad definition of terrorism and make absolutely clear that there is no sanction in Islam for deliberately attacking civilians, whatever the circumstances or justifications.

Human Rights Watch is writing to protest the detention by police of human rights attorney Samir Ben Amor on December 7. We regard this detention as an effort to intimidate Ben Amor and other members of the International Association in Support of Political Prisoners (Association Internationale de Soutien aux Prisonniers Politiques, AISPP), a five-year-old independent, Tunis-based human rights organization.

Human Rights Watch thanks you for the letter sent by your chef de cabinet, Mr. Lotfi ad-Douas, dated May 10, 2007 in response to the letter of April 25 that Human Rights Watch addressed to President of the Republic Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Letter from the Tunisian Ministry of Justice in response to Human Rights Watch's letter on the detention of Daniel Zarrouk.

Human Rights Watch is writing to urge you to release immediately and unconditionally Daniel Zarrouk, who has already served more than 15 years in prison.

Human Rights Watch is writing to urge you to release immediately and unconditionally Daniel Zarrouk, who has already served more than 15 years in prison.

On this occasion, we are writing to urge the release of one such prisoner who is marking today the first anniversary of his arrest. The prisoner, Ali Ramzi Bettibi, has exhausted his legal remedies, after the Court of Appeals confirmed his conviction and the Court of Cassation declined on December 15 to quash it.