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	Some opposition sources claim that in February 2012, he criticised [[freedom of the press]].<ref name="business">[http://www.businessnews.com.tn/details_article.php?t=534&a=29444&temp=1&lang= Samir Dilou se livre à un lynchage frénétique des journalistes], ''Business News'', 20 February 2012</ref> His opponents claim that he later added that [[freedom of expression]] and [[Strike action\|strikes]] were a privilege, not a right.<ref name="live">Sana Ajmi, [http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/01/08/government-spokesman-samir-dilou-addresses-state-of-tunisia-in-transition/ Government Spokesman Samir Dilou Addresses State of Tunisia in Transition] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406053738/http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/01/08/government-spokesman-samir-dilou-addresses-state-of-tunisia-in-transition/ \|date=2012-04-06 }}, ''Tunisia Live'', 8 January 2012</ref> He also decided to remove the police from the campus of [[Manouba University]] in [[Manouba]], where students have been demonstrating to wear the [[niquab]].<ref name="live"/>		Some opposition sources claim that in February 2012, he criticised [[freedom of the press]].<ref name="business">[http://www.businessnews.com.tn/details_article.php?t=534&a=29444&temp=1&lang= Samir Dilou se livre à un lynchage frénétique des journalistes], ''Business News'', 20 February 2012</ref> His opponents claim that he later added that [[freedom of expression]] and [[Strike action\|strikes]] were a privilege, not a right.<ref name="live">Sana Ajmi, [http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/01/08/government-spokesman-samir-dilou-addresses-state-of-tunisia-in-transition/ Government Spokesman Samir Dilou Addresses State of Tunisia in Transition] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406053738/http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/01/08/government-spokesman-samir-dilou-addresses-state-of-tunisia-in-transition/ \|date=2012-04-06 }}, ''Tunisia Live'', 8 January 2012</ref> He also decided to remove the police from the campus of [[Manouba University]] in [[Manouba]], where students have been demonstrating to wear the [[niquab]].<ref name="live"/>

	His opponents maintain also that in the same month, he said on [[Samir El-Wafi]]'s program on national television that [[homosexuality]] was not a human rights issue, but a condition in need of medical treatment.<ref name="dan">Dan Littauer, [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/02/06/tunisian-human-rights-minister-no-free-speech-for-gays/ Tunisian human rights minister: No free speech for gays], ''Pink News'', 6 February 2012</ref><ref name="amnesty">[https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/tunisian-officials-rhetoric-undermines-human-rights-~~2012-02-24~~ Tunisian official's rhetoric undermines human rights], Amnesty International, 24 February 2012</ref> [[Amnesty International]] condemned this statement.<ref name="dan"/><ref name="amnesty"/> In June 2012, he rejected the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]]'s recommendation to decriminalize same-sex intercourse, arguing it was a Western concept at odds with Islam, Tunisian culture and traditions.<ref name="littauer"/> Critics have argued the anti-gay legislation was passed under [[French protectorate of Tunisia\|French Tunisia]].<ref name="littauer"/>		His opponents maintain also that in the same month, he said on [[Samir El-Wafi]]'s program on national television that [[homosexuality]] was not a human rights issue, but a condition in need of medical treatment.<ref name="dan">Dan Littauer, [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/02/06/tunisian-human-rights-minister-no-free-speech-for-gays/ Tunisian human rights minister: No free speech for gays], ''Pink News'', 6 February 2012</ref><ref name="amnesty">[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2012/02/tunisian-officials-rhetoric-undermines-human-rights-2/ Tunisian official's rhetoric undermines human rights], Amnesty International, 24 February 2012</ref> [[Amnesty International]] condemned this statement.<ref name="dan"/><ref name="amnesty"/> In June 2012, he rejected the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]]'s recommendation to decriminalize same-sex intercourse, arguing it was a Western concept at odds with Islam, Tunisian culture and traditions.<ref name="littauer"/> Critics have argued the anti-gay legislation was passed under [[French protectorate of Tunisia\|French Tunisia]].<ref name="littauer"/>

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{{Short description|Tunisian politician}}
[[Image:Samir Dilou.jpg|300px|thumb|Samir Dilou]]
'''Samir Dilou''' is a [[Tunisia]]n politician. He served as the Minister of [[human rights]], transitional justice and government spokesperson under Prime Minister [[Hamadi Jebali]].<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/world-leaders-t/tunisia.html CIA World Leaders]</ref><ref name="tunisialive">Ahmed Lachheb, [http://www.tunisia-live.net/2011/08/15/samir-dilou/ Samir Dilou] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625030419/http://www.tunisia-live.net/2011/08/15/samir-dilou/ |date=2012-06-25 }}, ''Tunisia Live'', 15 August 2011</ref><ref name="littauer">Dan Littauer, [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/06/06/tunisia-rejects-unhrc-recommendation-to-decriminalise-gay-sex/ Tunisia rejects UNHRC recommendation to decriminalise gay sex], ''[[Pink News]]'', 6 June 2012</ref>

==Biography==

===Early life===
Samir Dilou was born in [[Tunis]] in 1966.<ref name="tunisialive"/> He graduated from the [[University of Sousse]] in 1991.<ref name="tunisialive"/> He was sentenced to ten years in prison as a result of his political involvement with the [[students' union]] [[Union Générale des Etudiants de Tunisie]] (UGET).<ref name="tunisialive"/>

===Career===
He is a lawyer and a member of the Executive Committee of the [[Ennahda Movement]].<ref name="tunisialive"/> He is one of the founders of the [[International Organization to Defend Political Prisoners]] and a member of [[Truth and Work Organization]] in [[Switzerland]].<ref name="tunisialive"/> On 20 December 2011, he joined the [[Jebali Cabinet]] as Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice and Spokesperson of the Government.<ref name="tunisialive"/>

===Minister===
{{See also|Human rights in Tunisia}}
Some opposition sources claim that in February 2012, he criticised [[freedom of the press]].<ref name="business">[http://www.businessnews.com.tn/details_article.php?t=534&a=29444&temp=1&lang= Samir Dilou se livre à un lynchage frénétique des journalistes], ''Business News'', 20 February 2012</ref> His opponents claim that he later added that [[freedom of expression]] and [[Strike action|strikes]] were a privilege, not a right.<ref name="live">Sana Ajmi, [http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/01/08/government-spokesman-samir-dilou-addresses-state-of-tunisia-in-transition/ Government Spokesman Samir Dilou Addresses State of Tunisia in Transition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406053738/http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/01/08/government-spokesman-samir-dilou-addresses-state-of-tunisia-in-transition/ |date=2012-04-06 }}, ''Tunisia Live'', 8 January 2012</ref> He also decided to remove the police from the campus of [[Manouba University]] in [[Manouba]], where students have been demonstrating to wear the [[niquab]].<ref name="live"/>

His opponents maintain also that in the same month, he said on [[Samir El-Wafi]]'s program on national television that [[homosexuality]] was not a human rights issue, but a condition in need of medical treatment.<ref name="dan">Dan Littauer, [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/02/06/tunisian-human-rights-minister-no-free-speech-for-gays/ Tunisian human rights minister: No free speech for gays], ''Pink News'', 6 February 2012</ref><ref name="amnesty">[https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/tunisian-officials-rhetoric-undermines-human-rights-2012-02-24 Tunisian official's rhetoric undermines human rights], Amnesty International, 24 February 2012</ref> [[Amnesty International]] condemned this statement.<ref name="dan"/><ref name="amnesty"/> In June 2012, he rejected the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]]'s recommendation to decriminalize same-sex intercourse, arguing it was a Western concept at odds with Islam, Tunisian culture and traditions.<ref name="littauer"/> Critics have argued the anti-gay legislation was passed under [[French protectorate of Tunisia|French Tunisia]].<ref name="littauer"/>

==See also==
*[[18 October Coalition for Rights and Freedoms]]

==References==
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