Tunisian Human Rights Defender on Hunger Strike (www.hrw.org)
from FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to world@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 16:45
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20890562

On January 14, prominent activist and former president of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, began a hunger strike while detained in Manouba prison. “I will no longer stand the injustice that strikes me. Justice cannot be based on lies and calumnies, but on concrete, tangible evidence,” she said in a message relayed by her lawyers.

Bensedrine has fought the abuses of successive governments for four decades and was imprisoned under former presidents Habib Bourguiba and Ben Ali. Now she is detained under Tunisia’s authoritarian president, Kais Saied, in a clear case of retaliation for her human rights work.

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