Radya Nasrawi stops hunger strike

The Tunisian lawyer and human rights activist Radya Nasrwai said she had stopped her food strike she started 57 days ago.

In a press conference she held in her house yesterday, Nasrwai said she had taken her decision on December 10th, a symbolic day marking the international declaration of human rights. She added that "My battle contributed to unmasking the police characteristics of the Tunisian regime." The Tunisian lawyer, looked very weak and had lost much of her weight, surrounded by her opposition husband Hema Hammami, and members of a supporting committee including many lawyers, said "I vowed to continue my struggle with you for the sake of freedom, human rights and justice." Radya Nasrwai observed a food strike since October 15, when she demanded putting an end to harassment she has been exposed to, at the family and vocational level, because of her work in the area of human rights and defense of opinion prisoners, and her condemnation of torture, as she alleged.

The Tunisian authorities considered these accusations as "baseless and groundless."