Human Rights Watch's Universal Periodic Review of France came out earlier this month. Among other things, HRW's main concern seemed to be the forcible deportation or removal of individuals in France accused of being "Islamic Fundamentalists." HRW points out the lack of due process, protocol, and standards of treatment employed during these accusations, interrogations, and removals, even among those individuals who had spouses and children who are French citizens.
One of the most disturbing examples concerned a man named Adel Tebourski, a French-Tunisian national, whose French citizenship was actually stripped from him in order to expel him to Tunisia in August 2006.
France has had tense immigration issues for some time, as do many other places in Europe. The new "war on terror" serves as a convenient guise for dealing with unwanted immigrants under the pretext of national security.
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