Tunisia-Judge Mekki Ben Ammar describes torture in Tunisian prisons

In an exclusive interview with a Tunisian production company, Judge Makki Ben Ammar asserted that he will always proceed to battle against corruption in Tunisia, emphasising that he will not give any chance “to the opportunists” to take hold of the situation in which the nation finds itself today.

He added that from May 8, 2020, the day of his imprisonment, he was the victim of torture and abuse in Borj El Amri prison for slander and exposure of personal data on social networks about the case of carcinogenic wheat. According to the judge, businessmen, a well-known MP and two high-level officials are implicated in the case.

According to him, Tunisian jails also do not have cells that uphold the rights of a detainee from a hygienic or even a sanitary point of view.

He admitted that he was the victim of cruel and inhuman treatment 3 times, two of which were in the office of the prison director, in Sidi Bouzid and in the presence of 3 officers.

Among the overruns that judge Mekki Ben Ammar unveiled during this statement, a head of the pavilion who assisted to pass drugs to detainees. In this sense, he ensured that he had already notified the prison management of this circuit.