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“The torturers seek to crush your soul”
25.06.2018 - (Last modified: 09.07.2018)
Naït-Liman case: Grand Chamber rejects torture victim's claim
15.03.2018 - (Last modified: 23.03.2018)
U-turn in the Naït-Liman Case
01.12.2016
«Please try to obtain justice elsewhere!», says ECHR to Torture Victims
21.06.2016 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Geneva, 21 June 2016 - In a judgment delivered today, the European Court of Human Rights narrowly ruled that Switzerland did not breach the European Convention on Human Rights by denying a Tunisian torture victim the right to seek reparations from his torturer. The victim, who was granted refugee status in Switzerland years ago in light of the torture he had endured,...
Tunisia: Victory at the UN for a torture victim
14.06.2016 - (Last modified: 10.11.2016)
Rached Jaïdane: victim of torture
17.05.2016 - (Last modified: 24.10.2018)
Rached Jaïdane
Wrongly suspected of inciting an attack against the party in power, Rached Jaïdane, a former political opponent, was arrested in Tunisia in 1993.
Among the acts of cruelty that he suffered during his detention, Rached Jaïdane was punched, kicked and beaten with truncheons all over his body; he was subjected to the “roast chicken” method of torture,...
Habib Ammar
16.05.2016 - (Last modified: 12.10.2016)
General Habib Ammar was Commander of the Tunisian National Guard from 1984 to 1987. Following the coup d’état in 1987, he was promoted to Minister of the Interior, a post which he held for a year.
During his mandate, the Ministry’s offices were transformed into centers of detention and torture. According to numerous human rights organizations, General Habib Ammar...