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Tunisia: Opposition Weekly's Editors Call Off Hunger Strike After Harassment Lets Up

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Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)

PRESS RELEASE
14 May 2008
Posted to the web 14 May 2008

Rachid Khechana, the editor of the opposition weekly Al-Maoukif, and Mounji Al-Lawz, its managing editor, ended a hunger strike after two weeks on 10 May. The hunger strike was held in protest against harassment of the newspaper. Khechana told Reporters Without Borders that "Al-Maoukif's distribution and sales were back to normal."

A Tunis court meanwhile began on 10 May to hear a libel action against Khechana and Al-Maoukif publisher Nejib Chebbi but quickly adjourned the case until 30 May. Five companies that market cooking oil are demanding 500,000 dinars (274,000 euros) in damages because the newspaper reported that contaminated cooking oil was being distributed. Some 50 lawyers have got together to defend Al-Maoukif.

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