Arabic News Weekly Edition for Tunisia, 1/14/2002
Weekly Edition, Tunisia - Week of January 14, 2002
- Lawyers of a Tunisian opposition member refuse his imprisonment sentence
Lawyers of the Tunisian opposition figure Hemma al-Humami who has been living in disguise on Tuesday filed an objection over the sentence in absentia released against him in 1999, stated to jail him for nine years, according to press statements made by the wife of the verdict lawyer Radyah al-Nasrawi. Tunisia, Politics, 1/18/2002 - Tunisia president meets with Turkish defense minister Tunisia-Turkey, Politics, 1/18/2002
- Tunisian president calls for limiting extremist groups activities in Europe
Tunisia's President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali has called on the international community to put an end to the move of the extremist groups members in the European capitals and to reconsider rules relating to giving political asylum. Tunisia, Politics, 1/17/2002 - Tunisian president confers with Prince Nayef
Tunisia's President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali on Monday received Saudi arabia's minister of the interior Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz and discussed with him "brotherly and fraternal relations between the two sisterly countries as well as current international events." Tunisia-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 1/16/2002