NEWS JUNE , 2013
PARLIAMENTARY FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY
Inside This Issue
1 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE BY MATYAS EÖRSI
6 WINDS OF CHANGE AND JUSTICE IN TUNISIA , A COUNTRY ALSO IN TRANSITION BY HANNEKE GEDERBLOM- LANKHOUT
11 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE : LITHUANIA „ S EXPERIENCEBY DOMAS PETRULIS
14 JUSTICE DURING TRANSITIONAL PERIOD . LITHUANIA „ S EXPERIENCE BY AGNĖ BILOTAITĖ
18 Upcoming Events
The Parliamentary Forum for Democracy was invited for the second time to Tunisia on 14 June to share parliamentary experiences , both theoretical and practical about transitional justice with encouraged , enthusiastic young participants of the Tunisian School of Politics .
The Parliamentary Forum delegation consisted of current
and former parliamentarians from European Union countries - Members of the Lithuanian Parliament Agnė Bilotaitė and Domas Petrulis , a former member of the Netherlands Senate and the Board Member of the Justice Sector Development Institute Hanneke Gelderblom-Lankhout , and PFD Secretary General and a
former member of the Hungarian Parliament Matyas Eörsi .
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
BY MATYAS EÖRSI
SECRETARY GENERAL PARLIAMENTARY FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY FORMER MP IN HUNGARY
I used to have one experience with the Parliamentary Forum for Democracy before I became its Secretary General and it was in the last year and exactly here in Tunis . It was a conference organized for Libyan lawyers , and the subject of the conference was rule of law . The major message of these very fine , open , clever and committed Libyan lawyers was that they want rule of law in Libya . On different matters , however , they always said : The revolution has not yet come to an end . This sounds fair enough : they very obviously meant that the public life of Libya is still occupied or influenced by Quaddafi-loyalist , and until Libya cannot get rid of these Quaddafi-loyalists , the revolution cannot be considered finished . As I used to live in Libya for a couple of moths during the revolution and the fight for freedom , I know that these views were widely shared all over Libya . As I have never lived in Tunis , I do not have such a knowledge about these feelings in Tunis , but having gone tho ugh a political change from dictatorship towards democracy in my own country , Hungary , and having seen a number of political transitions in Central-Eastern Europe and