A government Bill that would restrict the movements of a man on tolerated residence to the Sandholm Camp, would be an infringement on his human rights according to a Justice Ministry statement to Parliament.

As a result, one of Denmark's Mohammed cartoonists Kurt Westergaard risks meeting the man that the Security and Intelligence Service claims laid plans to kill him.

A new response to Parliament from the ministry says that it would run contrary to human rights to prevent the man from visiting his Danish-born wife and their children at the Gellerup Park estate near Århus.

DPP demand
The risk that Westergaard could meet the man alleged to have laid plans to kill him was one of the reasons that the Danish People's Party forced the government to tighten rules on foreigners afforded tolerated residence in Denmark.

Tolerated residence is a residence permit afforded those who cannot be extradited to their home country for fear of maltreatment.

With its statement to Parliament, the Justice Ministry has pulled the carpet out from under the government Bill, according to Information, which adds that refusing the Tunisian permission to visit his family over the weekend would run contrary to the European Human Rights Convention.