Tunisia: Journalist Slim Boukhdir's Health Getting Steadily Worse in Sfax Prison

press release

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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