In a Tunisian prison, a man has not eaten in nearly a month — not out of despair, but out of a deliberate reckoning with what silence costs. Wael Naouar, detained for six months without trial alongside three fellow activists for organizing a pro-Palestinian flotilla, has placed his body against a system that his supporters say has transformed solidarity into sedition. His case is not isolated: it unfolds within a documented pattern of financial laws wielded against civil society under President Kais Saied, raising the oldest of questions — when the law becomes an instrument of suppression, wha
Tunisian activist on hunger strike as four flotilla organizers remain detained
One activist has lost 18kg on hunger strike with severe health deterioration including low blood pressure, low blood sugar, and difficulty breathing; four activists held in pre-trial detention for six months.