"To realize this, one should compare its reports in the seventies and eighties of the last century on Morocco, on the one hand, and on Algeria and many other countries around the world, on the other hand," Tamek pointed out in reaction to the allegations contained in the reports published by AI, noting that such a comparison reveals “a barely veiled relentlessness against Morocco".
"To illustrate this paradoxical determination, I present a testimony concerning my own case," he added. "Following my arrest in May 1977 and my incarceration in the local prison of Meknes, I began to receive letters from a Belgian correspondent. I admit the fact that there was somewhere a person who was interested in my fate and I can only be grateful for it," Tamek said.
After having served my prison sentence, resumed studies and been appointed professor at the Faculty of Letters of the Mohammed VI University of Rabat, "I noticed that my name and that of other friends continued to appear incomprehensibly and unjustifiable in Amnesty International reports," Tamek said, noting that" I have drawn the attention of its officials to this incongruous fact in writing and through my correspondent. But it was a lost cause."
"In fact, in 1990, Amnesty International included in its report my name next to late Abdelkader Fadel and another person as still being a detainee," said the general delegate, who recalls having "then wrote another letter, where I informed Amnesty International that I had been a professor at the above-mentioned faculty since September 1986 and that late Abdelkader Fadel had never been arrested and that he was then a professor at El Jadida ".
"This time, I published my reaction on the Le Matin du Sahara newspaper in December 1990", Tamek pointed out, adding that "it was only after this incident and when I moved to London that Amnesty International has ceased to include my name in its reports."
"I am telling this anecdotal incident to tell my friends at Amnesty International that defending and promoting human rights is a noble mission, but it must have a universal scope and, for that, it should refrain from any distinction between humans, states or governments," Tamek underlined.
The official said he believed that "all members of Amnesty International have reason to wonder about how it acquired the expertise and the labs needed to claim that a cell phone has been spied ".
He also said that he is not among "those who dispute Amnesty International's contribution to the achievements made in the defense and promotion of human rights", stressing that the international NGO "has indeed played an undeniable role in this field across the world."
"This must be recognized despite the fact that, paradoxically, the states which were the most sensitive and the most positively reactive to its calls are not necessarily those which are safe from its biases and its unfounded allegations", he noted.