Press Release
Childhood Robbed amidst Government Silence
(Translated)

Following the hideous crimes of French civil society activist Thierry Darantiere where he sexually abused more than 60 boys including 41 from Tunisia between the ages of 4 and 16, and following the passing of a lightened sentence in French courts with a prison sentence of 18 years where he will be released immediately after and an opportunity will be provided for him to perpetrate new crimes, following this we in the Women’s Section of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah Tunisia:

- Condemn this hideous crime against childhood and we express our greatest sorrow for the child victims and their families, and our complete support for them.

- We strongly condemn the government in Tunisia for not carrying its political responsibility and demanding the rights of the child victims and their families. And we are stunned by the colluding and criminal silence which claim concern for human rights and the rights of childhood.

- We consider this crime and those similar to them an inevitable result of the existence of rulers who serve colonialism, making Tunisia a fertile ground for suspicious and dubious organizations and associations under the cover of international assistances or cooperation of international associations, without any consideration being given to the danger of the culture that they pass to our children and the danger of implanting loyalty to the colonialist states within our sons through these activities they are involved in.

- We hold the secular systems responsible which strive to embed a mode of living that robs the childhood with complete disregard of all levels of the value of the child and the value of the human in general. We regard the secular system to be the main cause for the appearance and spread of these types of crimes as they have failed to protect the right of the child globally. This is whilst at the same time they strive to wipe away the deeply rooted Islamic principles and values within the people of Tunisia through the educational and media programmers and through encouraging the existence of associations for homosexuals.

- We invite everyone to work with Hizb ut Tahrir to establish the Islamic system which is our shield after the proven failure of the secular systems to provide sound solutions for the Ummah’s issues.

Women’s Section
in the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Tunisia