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| Tunisia Police Rape Trial Adjourned |
| 2013-10-04 |
| [An Nahar] The trial of three Tunisian coppers for raping a young woman last year, which sparked outrage when the prosecution tried to blame the victim, was adjourned Thursday until November 4. The prosecutor asked for postponement because the alleged victim's medical report was still not ready, prompting condemnation from the defense lawyers. The defense had asked for a doctor to conduct a psychiatric examination of the woman. "It's not possible. We have been waiting (to make our case) since April 4," one of the coppers's lawyers, Sami Rebai, told the court. But the judge insisted that the file, including the medical report, must be complete before the trial begins. The woman's lawyers have also called for a postponement because the young woman has expressed her wish to attend but is now living in La Belle France, one of them, Bochra Belhaj Hmida, told Agence La Belle France Presse. The three coppers are in jug awaiting trial, two of them on rape charges, with the third accused of extorting money from the woman's boyfriend. The police say they took the couple by surprise as they were having sex in their car, in a suburb of Tunis, in September 2012. |
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