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Tunisia Ill-Fated Homecomings A Tunisian Case Study of Guantanamo Repatriations
HRW Index No.: E1904 September 5, 2007 Also available in 
Download PDF, 230 KB, 43 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Off the Record U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the “War on Terror” This 21-page briefing paper, published by six leading human rights organizations, includes the names and details of 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody abroad and whose current whereabouts remain unknown. The briefing paper also names relatives of suspects who were themselves arrested and detained, including children as young as seven. The list of missing people includes nationals from countries including Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan and Spain. They are believed to have been arrested in countries including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan, and transferred to secret US prisons operated by the CIA. June 7, 2007 False Freedom Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa This 144-page report documents online censorship and cases in which Internet users have been detained for their online activities in countries across the region, including Tunisia, Iran, Syria and Egypt. These attempts to control the flow of information online contradict governments' national and international legal commitments to freedom of opinion and expression and the summit's own Declaration of Principles. The report is based on an examination of thousands of Web sites from Middle Eastern countries and interviews with dozens of writers, bloggers, computer experts and human rights activists. HRW Index No.: E1710 November 15, 2005 Download PDF, 1800 KB, 118 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Tunisia: Crushing the Person, Crushing a Movement This 39-page report charges that the government’s policy of isolation is driven not by legitimate penological concerns. Rather, this national policy seeks to punish and demoralize jailed leaders of the banned Nahdha (Renaissance) party, as part of government efforts to destroy the country’s Islamist movement. HRW Index No.: E1704 April 20, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 285 KB, 39 pgs Purchase online Long-Term Solitary Confinement of Political Prisoners This 33-page report documents how the Tunisian authorities continue to hold as many as 40 of the country’s more than 500 political prisoners in long-term isolation in prisons around the country. This policy violates Tunisian law as well as international penal standards, undermining government claims of prison reform. The report is based in part on interviews with the relatives of prisoners in isolation. The government did not reply to the organization’s requests for access to prisons and for information about its isolation policies. HRW Index No.: E1603 July 7, 2004 Also available in 
Download PDF, 291 KB, 35 pgs Purchase online Tunisia: Repression and Harassment of Human Rights Defenders and Organizations Background information on the detention and harassment of human rights defenders and organization in Tunisia in anticipation of President Ben Ali's visit to Washington D.C. February 14, 2004 Printer friendly version Human Rights Watch Alert: Human Rights Lawyers and Associations under Siege in Tunisia Tunisian lawyers who are increasingly determined to defend human rights and expose the absence of an independent judiciary are under attack from state authorities. Their activism is evident in the revitalized national Bar Association and in the creation of new human rights groups over the past fifteen months. March 17, 2003 Tunisia: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There are no indications of under-18s in government armed forces. June 12, 2001 Tunisia: a Lawsuit Against the Human Rights League, an Assault on All Rights Activists An impending appeals court ruling in Tunisia threatens to undermine the Arab world's oldest independent human rights organization, according to a report released today by Human Rights Watch and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. The Observatory is a joint program of the International Federation for Human Rights and the World Organization against Torture. The 28-page report, "A Lawsuit against the Human Rights League, An Assault on All Rights Activists," also accuses the government of Tunisia of waging an all-out campaign against human rights critics, including heavy-handed police actions to block meetings of human rights organizations, physical assaults on men and women activists, passport confiscations, and interruptions in phone service. Human Rights Watch and the Observatory urged the governments of France, and of all the European Union, to monitor the appeals court case against the league that opens April 30, and to pressure the Tunisian government to stop its harassment of human rights monitors. HRW Index No.: E1303 April 1, 2001 Download PDF Purchase online Tunisia: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: Tunisia ratified the Mine Ban Treaty on 9 July 1999 and it entered into force for Tunisia on 1 January 2000. Tunisia reportedly began destruction of its antipersonnel mine stockpile in July 1999. Tunisia signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997 and officially deposited its instrument of ratification on 9 July 1999. At the UN in November 1999, the representative of Tunisia stated that the treaty "attested to the will of the international community to end the suffering of so many."7 On 1 December 1999 Tunisia joined 138 other nations in voting in favor of UN General Assembly resolution 54/54B in support of the Mine Ban Treaty. August 1, 2000 The Administration of Justice in Tunisia: Torture, Trumped-up Charges and a Tainted Trial The trial of Tunisia's most outspoken human rights lawyer, Radhia Nasraoui, and twenty co-defendants was attended by jurists representing Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint program of the International Federation of Human Rights [FIDH] and the World Organization Against Torture [OMCT]), and other organizations. HRW Index No.: E1201 March 1, 2000 Also available in
Purchase online Tunisia: Military Courts that Sentenced Islamist Leaders Violated Basic Fair-Trial Norms At the end of August, Tunisian military courts pronounced verdicts against 279 Islamists in the most closely watched trials to take place since 1987, when many of the same persons had been put on trial. The 1992 trials were seen as a test of the government's commitment to human rights at a time of growing repression that has affected not only the Islamist opposition, but much of civil society. October 1, 1992 Download PDF, 333 KB, 43 pgs
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