Crime: Wearing Hijab
This is a summary translation of a surveillance report (the picture above) found after the fall of Ben Ali’s regime in Tunisia. I found it through my friend Saudi reporter Hassan Al-Mustafa’s twitter feed.
I could have written a long detailed analysis of what is behind this, but I choose not to.The document speaks for itself.
3/21/2009
[Header]
Interior and Local Development Ministry
General Directorate of National Security
General Directorate of Public Security
SECRET
[handwritten] Ha 222
Report
Re: arrest of a girl wearing hijab “Rawda Ben Attiya”
Authority-based on: administrative order number 1120/SAM dated 10/06/2002 and message from General Directorate of Public Security number 1355 S A dated 11/27/2003
In accordance to the above mentioned directives whose purpose is to dutifully increase actions against the different forms of extremism in order to preserve our society’s character by:
-cracking down on followers of extremist religious groups;
- aborting their attempts to organize and operate through stricter controls of:
individuals wearing sectarian outfits, bearded men, individuals selling amulets, books, suspect books, activities of the Dawa & Tabligh group, mosques, prayers spaces and activities of Salafis.
It is my honor to inform you that on 03/18/2009 a girl wearing a hijab was detained. Her name is Rawda Ben Attiya born in the city of Seliana, residing in Beni Khiar. After investigation, [we learned] that she performed her religious duties regularly and she was informed that she needed to stop wearing the sectarian outfit [Hijab]. She acquiesced to said request.
An incident report was filed on the matter and archived [here], [the report’s] number is 179 on 02/18/2009
ID Card Data:
Rawda Ben Mohamed Ben Attiya, Tunisian citizen, born on 10/12/1985, female. Mother: Aisha Ben Gamra, married and residing in Beni Khiar
Filed for your information, the matter is still being pursued.
[illegible Signature]
54/ MN
Sent to Mr: R M A W N
[Stamp]
SECRET
Dekhnstan 
Now you have to remmeber that leila ben ali was an active member of the arab woman organisation and that ben ali and his mafia had strong ties with french feminist movement.
Is that what woman want for arab women ????
I spit in the face of all so called feminist especially in the arab feminist ones.
Now you have to remmeber that leila ben ali was an active member of the arab woman organisation and that ben ali and his mafia had strong ties with french feminist movement.
Is that what woman want for arab women ????
I spit in the face of all so called feminist especially in the arab feminist ones.
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[…] Surveillance reports of Tunisian General Directorate of Public Security shed light on police state and human rights violations, fear of return of Islamism is not warranted Posted on 21 January, 2011 by Mathias Vermeulen Reporter Hasan Almustafa found a surveillance report after the fall of Ben Ali’s regime in Tunisia which sheds some light on the workings of the police in Tunisia in its ‘fight against extremism’. (English translation here.) […]