Tunisia: The Higher Committee for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms to Become an Autonomous Institution With Wider Perogatives

Tunisia Online (Tunis)

24 January 2008

During a ceremony attended by members of the Diplomatic Corps in Tunisia, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali announced, Thursday, January 24, 2008, that the Higher Committee for human rights and fundamental freedoms will gain autonomous status and larger prerogatives.