At the end of last week, the President of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, issued a formal apology to a Tunisian woman who was raped by two police officers and then she was charged with indecency. Found by the officers in a car with her fiance, while possibly doing something "immoral," claimed the officers, two of the officers raped her while a third took her fiance to an ATM and extorted money from him.
Nothing has been said about the actual charges against her and her fiance (yes, for indency).
Tunisia is in the news a lot these days, as also today more than 50 people, mostly policemen, were injured at a protest about the opening of a trash dump on a tourist town.
Random Kate Thoughts: Charging raped women with indecency or adultery is one of the craziest things that society does to women in this day and age. It goes so completely against any concept of fairness that I have ever held. It's nice that the President apologized to the woman, but as far as we know the charges still stand. The war on women's bodies is a real thing, and it will take human rights organizations, governments, and ordinary citizens standing up for what's right in order to fight back and make real change. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
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