Tunisia politicians enter hunger strike in response to poor detention conditions

March 11th, 2023

Awake Goy

Jaouhar Ben Mbarek on December 23, during a press conference in Tunis, Tunisia on January 13, 2022 [Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency]

Tunisian politicians arrested in the "conspiracy against state security" case announced they had entered a hunger strike in response to the "poor conditions of detention." Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a member of the National Salvation Front (NSFT), announced that he had entered into a severe hunger strike after the prison administration deliberately abused him inside prison… in the implementation of the coup authority's instructions. "The same is happening now with the rest of the political detainees," according to a statement he posted on his Facebook page. The former Secretary-General of the Democratic Current Party Ghazi Chaouachi also announced that he had entered into a hunger strike: "In protest against the coup authority's intention to change my detention cell every two weeks […] Source

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