torture and murder of young BARAKAT.
18 years ago today, October 8, 1991, around noon, an unmarked car stopped with a bang before the position of the National Guard in Nabeul, at the out of town towards Tunis.
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plainclothes officers descended, dragging a young man in his underwear, his face bloodied. In the reception office, agents s'alertent each other, screaming, in a setting well-developed.
They rushed upon the young man crouched on the floor, still handcuffed, instinctively protecting his face and trembling with cold and fright. After a beating in order, Faisal is introduced to the office of Chief of the Brigade of Research - Al abhath wattaftich - Captain Abdelfattah Ladib. About eight officers will take turns on him throughout the afternoon. Until death.
The reconstruction of the crime leads to the following scenario with a probability of error close to zero: after a few hours of systematic physical assault, one of the officers - a serious investigation will determine his identity - has introduced a long object pin into the anus of the victim to a depth of at least six inches, crossing the rectum and fatally puncturing the intestine.
The Committee against Torture (CAT), after five and half years of process *, has criticized its failure to Tunis to the Convention against Torture, in this case. He pinned the system, the prosecutor Grombalia the minister of justice. He asked the Tunisian government to proceed with the exhumation of the skeleton - under the supervision of physicians who have already studied the case - to decide between two theories: either there is a traffic accident and found it broken bones, bones can be kept several hundred years, or there is a deliberate attack and prove the bones intact.
If ever the truth were to be accepted by some Tunisian government, rehabilitated the victim and his family fairly compensated, it will - we can never be stressed enough - thanks to the action and the tenacity of Amnesty International and the Department
North Africa / Middle East in particular. Without the commitment and professionalism of the prestigious organization, Faisal Barakat would have sunk into oblivion.
In 2002, a letter was sent by the Coalition of International NGOs against Torture (CINAT: Amnesty International, OMCT, APT, REDRESS and ACAT-FI) the Chairman of the Committee, the Canadian Burns asking him to act view to get the government of Tunis to cooperate with the Committee. It is believed that it convened a representative of the Tunisian government for an interview apparently been unsuccessful.
Government plays a filibuster against the Committee against Torture, which has never declared the case closed. Therefore the case is being revived from the Tunisian courts.
Not that we give any credence to this justice, but just a way to demonstrate by the evidence immediately to the attention of intergovernmental bodies, that is the Tunis government as such that obstructs easy to establish a truth, but dependent on his Will alone.
That said, he returned to Tunisian civil society, support the struggle of the martyred family to establish - officially and without any doubt - the truth became known secret.
In this tough battle ahead, the Barakat will require the presence of all but the mezrifiés, recruits late power calcified and false witnesses, goldsmiths in the art of kissing the hand they have monstrous bitten so long.
Therefore, we urge ALTT, LTDH, Freedom, Fairness, AISPP, RAID, Amnesty Tunisia, and the political parties of all persuasions, to demonstrate their effective support to the family. Actions requiring the government in Tunis that comply with the decisions of the Committee against Torture will be very useful to accelerate the process inexorably toward the truth. We would hope that NGOs and the Tunisian media and international will join this movement to finally allow the family to mourn that never occurred and will occur only if the truth is finally brought to light and recognized.
Khaled BEN M'BAREK, Coordinator of Communications Author
CAT & CAT 14/1994 60/1996
* The following links are the texts of the Committee against Torture on the case Barakat:
http://www.unhchr .ch/tbs/doc.nsf/23a89bf90e53e6ccc125656300593189/46b5caf9f05f83f9802567a6004cfd23? OpenDocument & Highlight = 0, Barakat
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/23a89bf90e53e6ccc125656300593189/3a3747c41a942b8e802568b8005058fb?OpenDocument&Highlight=0, 60% 2F1996
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