Tunisia touts fair treatment of repatriated Guantanamo prisoners
2009-06-19
Tunisia on Thursday (June 18th) noted "with satisfaction" the decision to close Guantanamo but rejected media reports that 10 Tunisian prisoners should go to European nations rather than face alleged human rights violations in their native county, Tunisia Online reported. In a statement, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights noted that two Guantanamo detainees repatriated to Tunisia in 2007 had their sentences reduced. They are now "detained under normal conditions and receive regular visits from their families and lawyers", the ministry said.
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Anonymous Posted 2009-06-20
When it comes to human rights in Tunisia, everyone lies. Not only the victims of torture themselves, but also Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the World Organisation Against Torture, the International Federation of Jurists, The League of Human Rights, the International Federation of Journalists and international press on the right and left and from rich and poor countries and from Arab-speaking, French-speaking, English-speaking and so on countries. The Eskimos are the only ones to not have criticised Tunisia's human rights record. Those evil tongues pretend that the Eskimos cannot take the head and have never laid foot in Tunisia. This argument is not valid, though, as the Tunisian press cannot take the heat, and the cold has never offered any criticism of human rights in Tunisia or published interviews with torture victims. Yet, the press is well aware of what is currently - not to be confused with the electrical current used for torture - going on. Let us not forget that the Tunisian press is free. The Ministry of Communication and the Ministry of Human Rights can confirm this. That Tunisia has a Ministry of Human Rights puts it far ahead of the civilised countries. Have you ever heard of a Ministry of Human Rights in Sweden, for example? If there were no human rights in Tunisia, then there would be no ministry carrying that name. A Ministry of Agriculture without agriculture is unimaginable. Yet, the civilised countries do not have, like Tunisia, a Ministry of Human Rights. You are laughing!? There is even a Ministry of Justice in Tunisia, but to save on costs, they have joined it to the Ministry of Human Rights, and of course, there was no bad intention in this.
Anonymous Posted 2009-06-22
I wonder who would like to be detained under the 'normal conditions' of the Tunisian ministry for Justice and Human Rights. I wouldn't wish it even to my worst enemies.
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