(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) A state-run panel tasked with documenting state-sponsored rights violations in the decades preceding the country's 2011 popular uprising said Tuesday that it had received nearly 11,000 complaints.
"The Truth and Dignity Council has begun processing the submitted complaints," panel spokesman Kamel Jendoubi told civil society representatives in capital Tunis.
Jendoubi said the panel had gathered 10,819 complaints since its formation last summer.
The council was set up by Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly in June of last year to document and study complaints of government-sponsored human rights breaches committed against activists from 1955 to December 2011.
The council was also tasked with assessing complaints of state-sponsored abuse against political activists since Tunisia's independence, with the aim of setting compensation for victims and determining which cases should be referred to prosecutors.
"Unveiling the truth is at the core of transitional justice," Jendoubi said at the rally, which was held to discuss plans for a local, UN-sponsored organization called the Tunisian Observatory for Transitional Justice.
"The current focus should be on the right to know, which has been upheld by international human rights doctrines," he said.
Tunisia gained independence from France in 1956 following a 75-year occupation, after which Habib Bourguiba became the first president of the Tunisian Republic.
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