Reporters Without Borders is very worried about imprisoned journalist Slim Boukhdir's state of health after he staged an eight-day hunger strike in protest against the conditions in which he is being held. Arrested on 26 November 2007, the Al-Arabiya website's ( http://www.alarabiya.net ) correspondent is serving a one-year sentence in Sfax prison (230 km south of Tunis).
"Preventing a prisoner from seeing his family or having a clean cell is a flagrant violation of human rights," the press freedom organisation said. "The injustice of sentencing this journalist to a year in prison is being compounded by his conditions of detention and staging a hunger strike has become his only way of making himself heard."
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