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Sihem Bensedrine, the former president of Tunisia\u2019s Truth and Dignity Commission between 2014 and 2018, has been in pre-trial detention since 1 August 2024. Her lawyers have been fighting for her release ever since, denouncing \u201ca judicial cabal with the sole objective to bury Tunisian transitional justice\u201d.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ayachi Hammami, former minister for human rights, is one of the fourteen lawyers on Sihem Bensedrine\u2019s defence committee. Their commitment to rights and freedoms during the regime of president Ben Ali (1987-2011) had already brought together the former journalist - who became the president of the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) between 2014 and 2018 - and the man of law from the Tunisian political Left. But what seems to have reunited them was Hammami\u2019s publication of the IVD\u2019s final report on 24 June 2020, while he was part of Elyes Fakfakh\u2019s short-lived government, which lasted only six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSihem Bensedrine\u2019s imprisonment [on 1 August 2024] is one of a series of violations committed as a result of the authoritarian drift of the current power. Her imprisonment is part of the wave of abusive arrests that has affected journalists, influential figures, politicians, human rights defenders, civil society activists and young, ordinary and anonymous users of social networks in recent months,\u201d says the lawyer. The former minister points out that he himself has been banned from leaving the country and is not allowed to appear in public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 10 October 2023, he appeared before the anti-terrorist judicial unit in the so-called case of \u201cconspiracy against state security\u201d, which involves some fifty defendants, mainly politicians, six of whom have been locked up since February 2023. Earlier, on 10 January 2023, Hammami had appeared before an investigative magistrate following a defamation suit by the minister of Justice for criticising her work. But neither the sword of Damocles of going to jail nor the ban on public appearance - \u201can impossible measure to apply! Since leaving my home would be tantamount to overriding the judge\u2019s decision\u201d - prevents him from continuing to fight for the freedom of the former chair of the Truth Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A judicial soap opera starting in 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bensedrine has been detained for nearly six months on a single charge, which is not new: she is accused of having \u201cfalsified\u201d the IVD\u2019s final report in exchange for money. The case, which Justice Info reported on at length in this article<\/a>, dates back to 26 March 2019, when the voluminous document of nearly 2,000 pages was published on the Commission\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when Ibtihel Abdellatif, former chair of the Women\u2019s Commission at the IVD, claimed in the media that the version of the document that the IVD considered as authentic was different from the one sent to the Tunisian president B\u00e9ji Caied Essebsi (2014-2019) on 31 December 2018. In March 2021, Bensedrine was heard as a witness by the financial crimes central unit of the National Guard. But the accusations and attacks from several politicians and journalists intensified. Seized by the national anti-corruption body, the prosecutor\u2019s office opened a judicial investigation against Bensedrine. The case was not pursued until two years later: on 7 March 2023, Bensedrine posted a message on her Facebook page informing the public that five days earlier, she had been summoned by the judicial unit on economic and financial matters. She added that she had been served with a ban on leaving the country and that the judge had charged her with gaining \u201cunfair advantage for herself and a third party\u201d, \u201ccausing damage to the State\u201d and \u201cfalsifying\u201d the final report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case concerned in this controversial part of the report has been investigated and transferred by the IVD to the courts. Twenty-three senior government officials and businessmen are being prosecuted for influence peddling, embezzlement, abuse of position and breach of trust in the management of public funds. \u201cTo this day, these senior officials and businessmen suspected of misappropriating public funds, some of whom are still in office, remain unpunished,\u201d say the four lawyers present at the press conference organised in Tunis on 4 December by Bensedrine\u2019s defence committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, \u201cthe 2018 draft was unfinished, and commission members were expected to edit the draft in January 2019, as confirmed in commission minutes reviewed by Human Rights Watch,\u201d said the NGO in a statement<\/a> calling for Bensedrine\u2019s release on 30 September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What risk does Bensedrine represent?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no legal justification for issuing a detention warrant against Sihem Bensedrine: she poses no danger to the State or to herself, nor can she intervene in the course of the case since the IVD\u2019s final report, which is the subject of the dispute between her and the courts, has already been published in the Official Journal,\u201d says Hammami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a press release<\/a> dated 4 December 2024 and called \u201cThe authorities persist in sequestering transitional justice\u201d, Bensedrine\u2019s defence committee asked for the immediate release of the former president of the IVD and the cancellation of the legal proceedings which target her, \u201cin violation of the legal guarantees ensuring the immunity of the members of the IVD and its agents in the exercise of their mission\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Committee member Abderraouf Ayadi, a former member of the National Constituent Assembly (2011-2014) and former political prisoner under Ben Ali, explains: \u201cI asked the judge in charge of the case to which category of risk he was referring to in placing Bensedrine in pre-trial detention. He refused to answer. Around the world, justice is guaranteed by two pillars: the presumption of innocence and an independent judiciary. These two principles are lacking here. The political nature of this affair is obvious. In reality, the former President of the Commission is being prosecuted for having carried out her mission till the end within the framework of transitional justice and revealed the truth about the mechanisms of repression.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the press conference, Bensedrine\u2019s defence committee pointed out that the judge who had conducted the investigations had decided to keep her free. However, this judge was transferred in April 2024 to the court of Jendouba (northwestern Tunisia), a move that took place outside the annual transfers of magistrates. \u201cWe have learned that he is currently sanctioned by being banned from sitting on the bench,\u201d notes Fethi Rebii. For example, the detention warrant issued against her on 1 August 2024, \u201cwith unusual speed, in the absence of any new evidence to justify it,\u201d was issued by a judge who was an acting investigating magistrate, according to the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two requests for release denied<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On 8 August 2024, three United Nations experts issued a statement<\/a> saying that Bensedrine\u2019s arrest \u201ccould amount to judicial harassment of Ms Bensedrine for the work she has undertaken as president\u201d of the IVD and that it \u201cappears to be aimed at discrediting information contained in the Commission\u2019s report which could give rise to legal proceedings against alleged perpetrators of corruption under the previous regimes\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case is still under investigation and, in Tunisia, pre-trial detention can last up to fourteen months. To date, his lawyers have been refused two requests for her release. While in prison, Bensedrine, now aged 74, underwent a thorough tax audit, which did not reveal any \u201csuspicious\u201d transactions or movements in her bank account, according to her lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bensedrine\u2019s detention coincides with the complete suspension of the specialised chambers charged to try criminal cases that came out of the IVD investigations. Remaining incomplete since the new judicial season in September 2024, the chambers are forbidden to sit. \u201cWe are convinced that one day, perhaps in the long term, the transitional justice<\/a> process will resume and the government will implement the recommendations of the Truth Commission\u2019s report. We hope that day will come while we are still alive,\u201d says Hammami with a smile.<\/p>\n\n\n

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