Conformément aux instructions du Président de la République, le #CCIF a été dissous en Conseil des ministres.
Depuis plusieurs années, le CCIF conduit avec constance une action de propagande islamiste, comme le détaille le décret que j’ai présenté en conseil des ministres. 👇 pic.twitter.com/W0SiDzORs4

— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) December 2, 2020

HRW 

On December 2, 2020, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin tweeted that the Council of Ministers had notified the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) that it was being dissolved by decree.

“Whatever its intention, this measure risks further stigmatizing Muslims in France,” said Kartik Raj, Western Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Shutting down an organization that raises legitimate concerns about anti-Muslim prejudice is blaming the messenger rather than addressing existing discrimination.” 

On November 19, Darmanin announced on social media that he had notified CCIF of the government’s intention to shut it down, giving it eight days to challenge the action in an administrative court. In the days that followed, the organization responded to some allegations in the minister’s letter in writing and over social media channels and announced on November 30 that it had already dissolved itself voluntarily and pre-emptively at the end of October. The government said in the December 2 notification that it did not accept the organization’s claim that it has dissolved voluntarily. 

A representative of CCIF has confirmed to Human Rights Watch that it intends to challenge the decree in French courts. The organization, she confirmed, had ceased operations and was no longer able to take forward the more than 500 cases on which it had been working.

I've spent too much time recently reading Americans. 

Link via @humanprovince

Tagged Charlie Hebdo because there is no free speech in France, or anywhere in Europe.

Egypt's military dictator receiving France's highest honour, the legion d'honneur, in Paris in the presence of Macron who also threw Sisi a gala dinner. Images all courtesy of Egyptian regime as they were not provided by the Élysée to French press https://t.co/U24EhtjIS1 pic.twitter.com/p9Nj3ch0hk

— Mehreen (@MehreenKhn) December 9, 2020