Amira Bouraoui, arrested Friday for illegal entry into Tunisian territory and then released by justice, was again challenged by the police on Monday.
by Madjid Zerrouky
Will Tunisia expel a Franco-Algerian journalist to neighboring Algeria where it risks incarceration from her descent of plane? The fate of Amira Bouraoui, journalist of the private media radio M and former opposition figure during the reign of ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is played in the coming hours.
Fearing for her security, the journalist had fled Algeria towards neighboring Tunisia at the end of last week. Forbidden to leave the territory by the Algerian authorities, it entered Tunisia by crossing the border illegally, equipped with its French passport. She had tried to take a flight for France from Tunis on Friday, when she was placed in police custody by the Tunisian air and borders for illegal entry on Tunisian territory. Office before a judge in Tunis on Monday, February 6, who released her and returned her French passport to the hearing, she was immediately kidnapped at the exit of the magistrate’s office by two judicial police officers, explains His lawyer, M
e Hashem Badra.
“Offense to Islam”
Currently owned by the Directorate General of the Police of Fronts and Foreigners, according to her lawyer, she risks an imminent expulsion to Algiers, according to Hashem Badra. “They will extradite her by the flight of 7 p.m. to Algiers. She has only her French passport on her. She cries and she is in bad shape,” he describes, adding that she informed the consulate general of France in Tunis , the NGO Human Rights Watch and the Tunisian Human Rights League.
Gynecologist doctor, the former co -host of the Barakat movement (“enough”) who opposed the fourth term of Bouteflika, had been sentenced in May 2021 to two years in prison for “offense to Islam” and The same sentence for “attacking the person of the President of the Republic” without a warrant of deposit at the hearing. She had already served a short prison sentence from June to July 2020 before benefiting from a provisional release after being sentenced to one year in prison.
Since September 2022, she hosted a weekly political program, “Le Café Politique Presse” (“Le CCP”), broadcast on the private media Radio M whose director, Ihsen El-Kadi, was imprisoned on December 29, 2022 .