UA: 222/10 Index: MDE 30/019/2010 Issue Date: 19 October 2010

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Tunisian prisoner of conscience Fahem Boukadous, aged 40, has been on hunger strike since 8 October 2010 in protest against his prison conditions and his continued detention in Gafsa Prison. He is refusing to take his medication without which his life may be in danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 125/10 Index: MDE 30/014/2010 Issue Date: 01 July 2010

The Tunisian authorities have introduced a new provision in the Penal Code in an attempt to prevent human rights activists bringing the country’s dire human rights record to the attention of the international community. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 340/09 Index: MDE 30/022/2009 Issue Date: 18 December 2009

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Tunisian Journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, in jail on politically motivated charges, is in urgent need of specialist medical care, without which his life may be in danger. A prominent critic of the Tunisian government, he was sentenced on 26 November 2009 to six months' imprisonment, after an unfair trial. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 330/09 Index: MDE 30/019/2009

Former political prisoner Lotfi Dassi was arrested by security forces in Tunisia on 23 November, apparently in relation to his activities to secure financial aid for families affected by floods in the town of Redeyef. The authorities have not acknowledged that they are holding him. He may have been subjected to enforced disappearance and is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]