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...external relations and international cooperation at Tunisia's Ministry of the Interior. In October the ripples from Tunisia's approach to human rights reached Washington: a federal judge ordered the U.S. government not to send a Guantánamo detainee home to Tunisia, fearing he'd be tortured in jail and suffer "devastating and irreparable harm." Ten Tunisians remain in Guantánamo, and Refaï says they can expect many years in prison if they are repatriated...
...record when President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Tunis last July. He told Ben Ali he was concerned about the arrest of a prominent lawyer, Mohammed Abbou, on what some regarded as dubious charges of assaulting a colleague and defaming the judiciary. Abbou was freed shortly after, ending two years in jail. In late October, the European Parliament's human-rights committee head, Hélène Flautre, visited Chebbi in the fourth week of his hunger strike, and told reporters that Tunisia's policies were "unbearable." Days later, Ben Ali revoked the eviction order against Chebbi's political party...
...case, indefinitely holding an individual—citizen or not—in a jail cell away from his family, without even the hope of legal recourse, is no more justifiable simply because he lacks a U.S. passport. Ultimately, the right of habeas corpus should be inviolable for the same reason torture is unthinkable—because we pride ourselves on living in a society that treats all people humanely, even when it might be expedient to do otherwise...
...however politically expedient and however popular with the masses, the decision to pardon Estrada in a nation struggling with endemic corruption strikes many here as deeply cynical. "Of course we'd rather see him in jail," says Alberto Lim, director of the influential Makati Business Council. "They say there's no big fish caught in this country. He was the big fish we caught...
...Crimson reported in July 2006 that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz had agreed to work in Epstein’s defense for the earlier charges, and the New York Post reported last month that Epstein is currently negotiating a guilty plea that would lead to a jail sentence of at least 15 months. Dershowitz could not be reached for comment about the new allegations. —NATHAN C. STRAUSS