MADRID Jan 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Tunisian journalist and former president of the Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, announced this Tuesday that she has begun a hunger strike from the Manuba prison, in the north of the country, where she has been detained since August 2024.
“I am starting a hunger strike. To the Tunisian authorities: I can no longer stand the injustice that hits me. Justice cannot be based on lies and slander, but on concrete and tangible evidence. Therefore, I am determined to go out, at all costs. coast, of this black hole where I was arbitrarily thrown,” reads a message posted on his Facebook social network account.
Bensedrine made this announcement from the Manuba women’s prison, where she has remained since last August she was arrested by the Tunisian authorities for allegedly falsifying a report from the organization that documents crimes committed under previous regimes, in which denounced corruption in the country’s banking sector.
In particular, the Human Rights defender was accused of “fraud”, “forgery” and “abuse of public functions.”
Since then, United Nations experts have expressed their concern about this arrest in a context of increasing repression by the Government of Kais Saied and have urged the Tunisian authorities to ensure that the process against Bensedrine respects judicial and procedural guarantees, while that NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have called for his release.
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