Family supports hunger strike

Paris - Five more brothers and sisters of a Tunisian journalist are to join him on hunger strike for press liberty in Tunisia…

Paris - Five more brothers and sisters of a Tunisian journalist are to join him on hunger strike for press liberty in Tunisia from today, his sister said yesterday in a statement issued by the French human rights group Reporters Without Borders. Another brother has already joined the protest.

Mr Taoufik Ben Brick (39) began his hunger strike on April 3rd to protest at what he described as harassment of his family, as well as travel and work restrictions imposed on him by a judge.

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