Algerian prisoners in Tunisia complain of discrimination

Algerian prisoners in Tunisia, who are subject to the final implementation of the sanctions in drug-related issues, complain of discrimination in the procedures of amnesty that were announced by the Tunisian authorities, and which affect them in the same charges from other countries, while they remained deprived of them.

Algerian prisoners complain in a letter, which Echorouk obtained a copy of it, and which was addressed to the Algerian authorities at the level of the Tunisian embassy, of the Tunisian authorities which ignore the Algerians, and raise slogans of neighborhood and brotherhood relationships in the media only.

They described the judgments which were inflicted against them as hard, and appealed both Algerians and Tunisian human rights activists to intervene for the possibility of deporting them to Algeria or benefiting from amnesty.

They also speak about their exclusion because they are Algerians, especially as prisoners from France, Morocco, Niger and other European countries who are serving sentences between 10 and 36 years, but they were either release or benefit from amnesty procedures, while Algerians remain behind the bars in Tunisian prisons.

Complainants asserted that the Algerian ambassador to Tunisia and the Consul-General are informed of their cause, but they did not take the right measures for their deportation or to benefit from amnesty, as was the case with the rest of the foreign prisoners in Tunisia.