The Danish People's Party is calling for a thorough study of the various conventions to which Denmark is a party following a Justice Ministry report that gives a Tunisian on tolerated residence the right to visit his family.

The man, whom the Security and Intelligence Service allege was party to a plan to kill one of Denmark's Mohammed cartoonists, is on tolerated residence as he cannot be administratively extradited to his home country for fear of persecution. He is currently confined to reporting to and living in an asylum centre.

His family lives in Århus in Jutland, a short distance from the cartoonist in question, Kurt Westergaard.

"Now we're talking about the human rights of a Tunisian on tolerated residence. What about the human rights of Kurt Westergaard. I am outraged and we are going to have to react against these conventions," says Pia Kjærsgaard, the leader of the Danish People's Party.

Prevention
The government's so-called Tunisian law was designed to prevent the Tunisian from meeting Kurt Westergaard in the street. As a result, the law requires people on tolerated residence to report once each day to the Sandholm Camp on the capital island, and to spend the night there - in the case of the Tunisian four hours away from his family.

Human rights
But according to a report in Information, the Justice Ministry says that the regime runs contrary to the man's human rights, and he must therefore be permitted weekend visits to his family in Århus.

"The situation is unaceptable. If the government maintains this, it will end up with the Security and Intelligence Service having to monitor both Kurt Westergaard and the Tunisian to make sure they don't meet. That's a lot of resources," says Kjærsgaard.

Intolerable
Kjærsgaard says it is untenable that human rights conventions stand in the way of Danish legislation.

"We can't continue to accept this, so we need a break with the conventions that aren't sustainable any more," says Kjærsgaard.

And if it is not possible to prevent a chance meeting between the cartoonist and the Tunisian by law, the DPP wants to force him out of the country by other means.

"My intention is to make the existence for this Tunisian so intolerable that he chooses to leave the country with his obscure, burka-clad wife," says Kjærsgaard