Tunisia’s opposition National Salvation Front has announced that several members of its executive body and supporters will take part in a collective hunger strike starting on Monday, in solidarity with lawyer Ayachi Hammami and all political detainees and prisoners of opinion. In a statement, the Front said it stands with all detainees who have turned their prison cells into spaces of struggle against authoritarian rule. It said the move is also a protest against what it described as policies that criminalise political and civil activity and free speech. The Front confirmed its support for the symbolic solidarity hunger strike scheduled for Monday, adding that a number of its executive members and supporters will join it. It said the decision comes […]
