Tunisia: 'Stepped Up Efforts to Establish National Anti-Torture Authority Before End of 2015' - HPR

Tunis — "Stepped up efforts are made to establish the national anti-torture authority before the end of 2015, which would make Tunisia the first Arab country and the fourth in Africa to set up such a structure, said President of the Electoral Committee at the House of People's Representatives (HPR) Badreddine Abdelkefi.

In a statement to TAP on the sidelines of the working session held by the Committee to discuss the progress of the process of establishment of that authority, Abdelkefi noted that this meeting focused on the presentation of former applications for the Office of that authority that had reached the Rights and Freedoms Committee of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA), after the Administrative Court decided to maintain them to ensure the principle of continuity of the State.

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