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#Tunisia: Tunisians Implicated in Iraq War Crimes | Human Rights Watch
▻http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/25/tunisians-implicated-iraq-war-crimes

Recent Atrocity Highlights Need for investigations

Tunisia, a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2011, should enact legislation on war crimes, integrate the ICC statute into national law, and take urgent measures to investigate and prosecute Tunisians implicated in abuses amounting to war crimes or crimes against humanity in Syria or Iraq, Human Rights Watch said. On June 24, the Minister of Interior, Lotfi Ben Jeddou, said in a press conference that at least 2400 Tunisian jihadists are fighting in Syria, most of them fighting with Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

In early February, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said that the government has prevented more than 8,000 Tunisian men from traveling to Syria to fight.

The videos posted on Facebook that appear to show a Tunisian fighter involved in killing Iraqi border guards is a wake-up call to Tunisian authorities to investigate and prosecute any war crimes by Tunisian nationals in Iraq and Syria.When a Tunisian extremist so brazenly boasts of his crimes online, the authorities should send a clear and unequivocal message to all Tunisians that they won’t tolerate such conduct.
Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East and North Africa

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Four Tunisian policemen dead after attack on minister’s home
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/four-tunisian-policemen-dead-after-attack-minister%E2%80%99s-home

Four Tunisian police officers were killed during a “terrorist” attack overnight on the home of Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou in the west-central Kasserine region, a ministerial spokesman said Wednesday. It was not immediately clear who, if anyone, was in the house at the time of the attack, but the minister himself normally stays in the capital Tunis while his wife and children live in Kasserine. read more

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Tunisian parliament approves apolitical government line-up
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tunisian-parliament-approves-apolitical-government-line

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From right, #Tunisia's premier-designate Mehdi Jomaa, Justice Minister Hafedh Ben Salah and Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou attend a parliamentary session to present Jomaa’s new government in the Constituent Assembly on January 28, 2014 in Tunis. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)

Tunisia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a technocratic caretaker government tasked with leading the country out of a bruising political crisis and to fresh elections. After a marathon session broadcast live on national television, the line-up proposed by Prime Minister-designate Mehdi Jomaa was approved by 149 lawmakers, with 20 voting against and 24 abstaining. The line-up was only agreed after weeks of horsetrading and will replace the government led by the Islamist al-Nahda party, (...)

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Sorry, the Tunisian « Sex Jihad » Is a Fraud - By David Kenner | FP Passport
▻http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/09/26/sorry_the_tunisian_sex_jihad_is_a_fraud

It’s the story that launched 1,000 headlines. And it’s not hard to see why: Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou announced last week that Tunisian women were traveling to Syria to wage “sex jihad,” where they were having sex with “20, 30, [or] 100” militants, before returning pregnant to Tunisia.

There’s only one problem — there’s no evidence it’s true. The Tunisian Interior Ministry has so far failed to provide any further information on the phenomenon, and human rights activists and journalists have been unable to find any Tunisian woman who went to Syria for this purpose.

(le titre aurait été plus percutant sans le bizarre « sorry »)

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