| Submit your comments on this article |
| Africa North |
| Tunisia Prosecutor Appeals Ruling on Raped Woman |
| 2012-12-04 |
| [An Nahar] The public prosecution in Tunisia has appealed against last week's court ruling to drop a case of possible indecency against a young woman allegedly raped by two coppers, her lawyer said on Monday. "We just found out this morning that the prosecution has lodged an appeal," Bochra Belhaj Hmida told Agence La Belle France Presse. "It's their right, legally, there's nothing that can be said about that. But on the moral front..." A Tunis judge last Thursday dropped the case against the woman, whose identity has been kept secret, while two accused officers are to face rape charges and a third for extortion. The 27-year-old rape victim faced possible indecency charges with her fiance based on the testimony of the alleged rapists, coppers who say they took the couple by surprise in an "immoral position" just before the alleged attack. A judicial source has previously said that the police had taken the couple by surprise as they were having sex in their car. Two of them then took the woman to a police car, where they raped her in turn, while a third restrained and tried to extort money from her fiance at a bank cashpoint, the source added. Last month a magistrate had questioned the woman, alleged raped on September 3, to decide whether she was to be charged with indecency, which could carry a six-month prison sentence. The case sparked a storm of protest in Tunisia, with NGOs, media and opposition figures saying the proceedings had transformed the victim into the accused and reflected the Islamist-led government's policy towards women. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Back to the future by Islamist pigs. Huh, who woulda thunk it? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-12-04 08:10 |