presentation of an alternative report to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) by the FIDH in collaboration with the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LTDH) and the Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia (CRLDHT), respectively affiliated and partner of the FIDH, in order to take stock of the state of application in Tunisia of the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The report highlighted a number of worrying aspects of legislation and practice (police custody, harassment, particularly sexual harassment, and violence against women who are relatives of detainees or exiles, difficulties encountered in lodging complaints of abuse and torture, etc.), the need for medical examinations and autopsies in cases of suspicious death, extradition conditions, rehabilitation of torture victims, punishment of officials guilty of torture and the impunity they can enjoy), the conclusions of the UN experts were a repudiation of the Tunisian government's report.
presentation of an alternative report to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) by the FIDH in collaboration with the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LTDH) and the Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia (CRLDHT), respectively affiliated and partner of the FIDH, to take stock of the state of implementation in Tunisia of the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The report highlighted a number of worrying aspects of legislation and practice (police custody, harassment, particularly sexual harassment, and violence against women who are relatives of detainees or exiles, difficulties encountered in lodging complaints of abuse and torture, etc.), the need for medical examinations and autopsies in cases of suspicious death, extradition conditions, rehabilitation of torture victims, punishment of officials guilty of torture and the impunity they can enjoy), the conclusions of the UN experts were a repudiation of the Tunisian government's report.
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