Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:

Italy should immediately halt all efforts to expel Essid Sami Ben Khemais to Tunisia, because of its established record of torture, Human Rights Watch said today. At the time of writing on June 3, 2008, Ben Khemais, a Tunisian national facing terrorism charges in Italy, was being held at Fiumicino airport outside Rome and could be put on a plane to Tunis at any time.

Interior Minister Roberto Maroni ordered Ben Khemais's expulsion on May 31 despite a 2007 request by the European Court of Human Rights to suspend the expulsion until it had ...

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