Human rights panel says it's received 65,000 complaints in Tunisia

A panel investigating human rights violations under Tunisia's former rulers before the 2011 unrest has received 65 000 complaints.Commission head Sihem Bensedrine says the panel received a slew of complaints including torture, arbitrary detentions, physical abuse and violations of freedom of speech.The Truth and Dignity Commission has tracked abuses committed between July 1955 - just a year before Tunisia gained its independence to December 2013 when the fact-finding body was set up.The period effectively covers the rules of prime ministers Habib Bourguiba, that of his successor Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ousted in 2011 and the first post-revolutionary governments.