Truth and Dignity Commission
The Truth and Dignity Commission ( Arabic هيئة الحقيقة والكرامة, DMG Haiʾat al-Ḥaqīqa wa-l-Karāma ) was a body that was active on behalf of the Tunisian government from 2014 to 2018. The task of the commission was to come to terms with human rights violations in Tunisia from 1955 and 2013.
tasks
The 15-member committee, led by Sihem Bensedrine , who was imprisoned several times during the Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's dictatorship for her work for independent journalism, was tasked by the Constituent Assembly with the task of systematically exposing human rights violations and prosecuting them legally. To this end, the commission examined more than 50,000 cases. The focus of the investigation was on dealing with arbitrary state behavior, with which the Commission was confronted to an unexpectedly large extent.
development
After it was founded in 2014, the commission and its work were in the public interest. In 2016, abuse and torture trials were televised and around a third of Tunisians watched them. The work of the commission was made more difficult by the Nidaa Tounes party , which won the parliamentary elections in October 2014. The party includes former supporters of the Ben Ali regime, so the party was interested in ending the work of the commission. The ruling party ignored the work of the Truth and Dignity Commission and public interest in the commission waned. On March 26, 2018, Parliament voted against the extension of the Commission's mandate, so that it had to finish its work on May 31 without having submitted a final report. A single extension would have been possible under Article 18 of the underlying law. Although the parliament voted against an extension of the mandate, the responsible ministry nevertheless extended the mandate so that the commission could complete its final report as provided for in the law. It published this on March 26, 2019, exactly one year after parliament voted against the extension. The report accuses President Beji Caid Essebsi of having himself been responsible for human rights violations during his time as Interior Minister under Habib Bourguiba . In addition, the lack of reform of the security apparatus and the lack of cooperation on the part of the government were criticized.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official site
- ^ CV Sihem Bensedrine. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
- ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Unstable majority for Tunisia's new government | DW | 02/05/2015. Accessed February 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Martin Gehlen: Tunisia: The long way to justice . In: The time . July 25, 2018, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 9, 2019]).
- ↑ Fischer World Almanac 2019 . 1st edition. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
- ↑ Legal text in English
- ↑ Tunisia Truth Commission Brings One Court Case in Four Years Article in NY Times June 6, 2018
- ↑ Tunisian president accused of complicity in torture Article in Guardian of March 26, 2019
- ↑ Six volumes of truth article in the taz of March 29, 2019