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| Tunisia Rights Groups Urges Release of Ben Ali Minister |
| 2013-08-22 |
| [An Nahar] A Tunisian rights group on Wednesday called for the release of Ridha Grira, the last defense minister of ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who is suffering from cancer. Detained since September 2011, Grira is being prosecuted for his part in a number of corruption cases linked to the Ben Ali regime, which was tossed in a popular uprising in 2011. The Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights said that due to Grira's poor health, releasing him "cannot be an obstacle to his prosecution." "We urgently call on the judicial authorities to grant him bail during this critical phase in his life." It said the Mornaguia prison, in a suburb of the capital, where Grira is being held, does not have the facilities to provide the necessary treatment. Several tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! relatives and former officials in the government of Ben Ali, who fled with his wife to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , have tried in recent months to secure their release on health grounds. In April, the ousted strongman's brother-in-law, Moncef Trabelsi, who had been incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for fraud, died in jug of a brain tumor. |
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