Reports
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Tunisia’s New Law on Detention, on Paper and in Practice
This report examines the actual impact of the law granting detainees the right to a lawyer as soon as they are taken into custody. Every year, the police arrest thousands of people across Tunisia. They spend up to four days in police custody, a crucial period for building the criminal case against them, before they first see a judge. During this time, they are vulnerable to mistreatment.
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The Administration of Justice in Tunisia
Torture, Trumped-up Charges and a Tainted TrialThe 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 Wor -
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.