Tunisia: Further information on Forcible return / Fear of torture and other ill-treatment

Index Number: MDE 30/006/2007
Date Published: 23 July 2007
Categories: Middle East And North Africa, Tunisia

On 17 June, the USA transferred two Tunisian nationals, Abdellah Ben Omar al Hajji and Lutfi Ben Swei Lagha, from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody of the Tunisian government. They had spent around five years in US custody.