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Torture, Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trial in Tunisia
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The Trial of Radhia Nassraoui and Twenty Co-Defendants (1999). Between February and April 1998, a wave of detainments in Tunisia hit students and people accused of belonging to the Communist Workers Party of Tunisia - an organisation which is not recognised by the authorities - whose spokesperson, Hamma Hammami, is being actively sought by the police. 20 people were accused of being members of a terrorist group, of holding unauthorised meetings, of inciting rebellion, of spreading false information with a view to disturbing public order, of defamation against the authorities, and of distributing pamphlets. On the 31 March 1998 Radhia Nassraoui, an internationally renown human rights defence lawyer, who had been retained to defend a number of the accused, was herself accused of aiding members of an association which incites hatred to meet together, and charged with allowing contact to take place in her office between her husband, Hamma Hammami, and certain of the accused.
The report which follows is the result of the observations of the EMHRN. It was established from the accounts of the lawyers appointed by the EMHRN to monitor the trials.
Also available in French.
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