The Democratic Lab' initiated in 2011 the Secret Police Project.
At first, the project was related to the democratic transition in Tunisia and especially the necessary legal framework for intelligence services in a democratic Tunisia (organisational chart, procedures to set up files, access to some informations/files, control of the services...).
However, Tunisian revolution is a laboratory. The debates and analysis concerning Tunisia are also interesting for other countries, even old democratic countries, because the relationship between democracy and secret services is universal.
THE BLOG
We created a blog, in which we put international ressources and material on the subject: conferences, study trips, reports, articles, videos, art exhibitions...
The blog is currently in French and Arabic. The Arabic site has to be updated and we would like to translate the site in English and Spanish.
We would like to enrich the blog with ressources and material related to secret police legal issue in other countries.
Website
PAST ACTIVITIES:
- Study trip in Germany
- Partner: Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
- Dates: From 28 February to 2 March 2012
- Place: Berlin
- Description: We took a Tunisian delegation of experts, members of the civil society and a representative of the Tunisian ministry of Education, to Berlin in order to visit Berlin–Hohenschönhausen Memorial (a former soviet special camp and a Stasi jail), the Berlin Center for Torture Vicims (BZFO) and the Commissioner for Stasi archives, and discuss with political, media and civil society leaders.
- Press release - February 2012
- Conference-debate co-organized by the Democratic Lab': « Secret police archives: a challenge for the democratic transition ? »
- Partner: DCAF
- Dates: 12 and 13 November 2011
- Place: Tunis (El Théâtro and Golden Tulip – Mechtel)
- Conference report FR] AR]
- Docmentary film about Tunisian secret police methods of surveillance
- Partner: DCAF
- Directors: Kerim Bouzouita and Thameur El Mekki
- Trailer
- Street interviews: opinions of citizens on Tunisian secret police
