Tunisian women behind bars .. Who holds the torturers in the custody of Bourguiba and Ben Ali?

Mohamed Ali Latifi - Tunisia

Basma Shaker, who has been raped in prison, continues to be persecuted for her role in the Ben Ali regime, which was overthrown by the January 14 revolution.

Basma grew up in a well-to-do family of seven in Mahdia Governorate, south of Tunis. She was cut off from secondary school with no other daughters of her generation. She was imprisoned at the age of 17 for pretending and publishing statements against the regime.

What is painful and burdensome is the delivery of security by her father, who was strongly opposed to her intellectual orientation, and the idea of ​​completing her studies, although a man of education, to find herself in prison cells instead of school seats, according to her testimony to the island Net.

Confessional
The iron woman's will was shaken at the moment when the interrogators tortured her to force her to confess, mercilessly, in the dark interrogation room, after drinking a bottle of juice that was likely to contain anesthetic.

Basma, or, as she likes to call repentance to Al Jazeera Net, was imprisoned and was only 17 years old. She became drugged and sleepy after being tortured and slept on nightmares of terror and fear.

"I found myself almost naked at the prison doctor when I lost consciousness one day. I only knew that I had been raped more than once. The doctor, who was subsequently imprisoned for sexual harassment and rape of women prisoners after the revolution, asked me to silence the show, 4% of women who are born lost to the virgin. "

The ministries concerned with the defense of human rights did not have the responsibility to defend Basma Shaker, especially since her legal age was under 18, and she had to be rehabilitated for the age of juveniles and she remained until she reached adulthood.

"I hate my father, who did not hug me for a moment. He discriminated between my male brothers. He deliberately beat me and insulted me, to the extent that he deliberately intended to be my share and share the smallest piece of meat."

My dignity and honor
The seven brothers competed when Basma decided to break her silence and to inform the Truth and Dignity Commission about the crimes of the torturers. But Basma says that the Truth and Dignity Commission for Reparation for Moral and Financial Damage to Victims of Violations is also still unfair to her and the judiciary is still considering the case of her rapists. .

"My dreams were bombed by becoming a lawyer and having a child after my marriage, since my father's authority prevented me from completing my studies, and since I was raped, I became a mother."

The story of Basma and her feelings is no different from the other stories that belong to the Islamic trend, and the leftist parties who suffered the worst psychological and physical torture inside the cells because of their opposition to the regime.

Najwa al-Rizki, a left-wing activist of Al-Jazeera Net, says she was jailed for two years. She was later arrested shortly after giving birth to her eldest child. She was bleeding in prison and did not receive the ambulance and her son for three days.

Al-Rizki stressed that the leftist and Islamist opposition faced blatant violations in prisons and detention centers for their opposition to the regime. She said that she hopes that reparations will not be limited to material compensation, but that the torturers should be tried.

Reparation
Reparation does not amount to full compensation for the suffering of victims of the former regime, the loss of human rights violations, and the harsh treatment they have suffered, but remains a good sign of reconciliation under the Transitional Justice Act.

"As long as the file contains evidence of the harm, the victims have the right to claim their rights, which they have been deprived of for decades of imprisonment and unfair trials," said Justice and Justice Committee member Adel al-Maizi.

He pointed out that the Authority is in the process of publishing lists of beneficiaries of the decisions of reparation of material and moral damage from those who met the conditions, stressing that the reparation consists mainly of state recognition and apology for violations and rehabilitation of victims with the provision of material compensation to the victim to live in dignity.

For his part, the General Secretary of the torture organization Munther al-Sharni in Tunisia told Al-Jazeera Net that the phenomenon of torture in prisons after the revolution continued, although recorded a decline in the rate of fluctuating years, as documented by the organization.

She hopes that her fingers will be planted in the eye of her oppressors, amid nightmares that will restore the laughter of her executioners, so that all her hopes will be held to account for her executioners, who have been betrayed in her torture.