Women in Tunisia Tell of Decades of Police Cruelty, Violence and Rape

Tunis-master675Wir veröffentlichen Beiträge über rassistische Polizeigewalt und rassistische Diskriminierung durch die Polizei und andere Sicherheitskräfte sowohl in Deutschland als auch in anderen Ländern. Der folgende New York Times Artikel berichtet von der sexualisierte Polizeibrutalität und die über die mutige Frauen in Tunisien, die trotz der Trauma und gesellschaftliche Stigma, widerstad leisten und durch ihr Auftreten, Polizeigewalt auch gegen Mänern thematisieren. Es is, daher, eine Ausnahme

TUNIS — She was just 21 when she was arrested by Tunisia’s state police, who hauled her into an Interior Ministry office and “beat me up so hard that I don’t even remember how I found myself there.” But that was not the worst part.

Hamida Ajengui said she was stripped, and hung upside down by a dozen police officers who hurled abuse at her and threatened her with rape.

“I was a girl,” Ms. Ajengui, now 46, said in an interview. “I was raised in a certain environment where it is ethical to be a moral, respectable, polite person. Then all of a sudden I was taken to this place where they strip you — they took all my clothes off — they leave you completely naked.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/world/africa/women-in-tunisia-tell-of-decades-of-police-cruelty-violence-and-rape.html?emc=edit_th_20150529&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=60905533&_r=0

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