Tunisia releases journalist al-Zwari, monitors him
Tunisia, Politics, 9/13/2004

The Tunisian authorities on Saturday released journalist and leading figure on the Islamic al-Nahda movement Abdullah al-Zwari after he had spent 13 years in prison of which 7 years were in a separate cell.

A statement by al-Nahda movement said that al-Zwari -- who was the chief editor of al-Fajer ( dawn) paper, mouthpiece of al-Nahda party -- still suffers after his release as the Tunisian authorities imposed home arrest on him in one of the villages in the far south of the country and prevented him from joining his residence and work headquarters in the capital Tunis.

The Tunisian judiciary sentenced al-Zwari to imprisonment twice under charges of being member in the al-Nahda movement and over his intensive judiciary and media activity. However, the news editor of al-Fajar ( dawn) paper Hammadi al-Jabbali is still behind the prison bars to spend 15 year imprisonment sentence.

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