Thursday, July 21, 2011

recently my father was in Tunisia, he then left and then a few days later had to be back in Tunisia, when he tried to enter the second time he was told his name was on a list of wanted, my father laughed and told the Tunisian official that this has happened before and the matter is a similarity in the name with a wanted Lebanese man, the man then asked my father if he was the head of 'libya watch' a human rights organisation? my dad replied that he is and the Tunisian offical then said that my father was the man in question!!!!

during my dads absence from Tunisia, i a matter of days, gaddafi cronies had given my dads name to the Tunisians!!! fortunately my dad was travelling with a British passport, so he was denied access into Tunisia, was detained for 48 hours in the airport, was not given any food until he started to demand it as he is a diabetic and needed his insulin but couldn't take it with out food!!! and managed to get a flight home eventually.

the sad part of all this is that despite the revolution in Tunisia, there are factors still communicating with Gaddafi!!! and the irony is my father was prevented from entry not because of politics but human rights!!!!!

the 'Arab spring' has a long way to gooooooo and deeeeeep cleansing of individuals is needed.

3 comments:

Paul Edwards said...

Wow. You're right. Tunisia has a long way to go! Let's hope that nothing prevents elections in Tunisia so that the cleansing process can begin.

Hiba said...

تحياتي من طرابلس ياصديقتي
الحمد الله اننا بقينا في طرابلس ولم نهرب منها خوفاً من قصف الناتو أو هرباً من قلة البنزين أو من انقطاع الكهرباء في كل وقت ولساعات ولأيام أو لنقص الغاز.الحمد اللله لم نهرب من كثرة الضغط النفسي الكبير بل تحملنا وصبرنا وبقينا في مدينتنا طرابلس.صحيح خرجت انا وامي من البيت لنبقي في شقتنا بجوار اخي في عمارة سكنيه فقط لأجل السلامه .ولكننا في نفس شارعنا"بن عاشور.مرت علينا 3 ليال غريبه عجيبه الحمد الله علي الحرية

white african said...

hamdallah 3alal salamah, really proud of you, and proud of the libyans, libya will be a beautiful place inshallah, keep safe and i really hope to meet you soon inshallah