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Tunisia: A revolution for dignity

Tunisia: A revolution for dignity

Radhia Nasraoui

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Radhia Nasraoui in her office in Tunis.
Ms Nasraooui is a lawyer, human rights activist and president of the Tunisian Association for Combating Torture in Tunisia. 57-years old she defends the human rights of man independed his ideology. 
She is famous for her trials during Ben Ali regime, when she was defending members of the unauthorized communist party PCOT as also members of the unauthorized Islamist al-Nahda (“The Renaissance,” in Arabic) movement who were tortured. “The constitution and the laws will change totally”, she says. She is married with Hamma Hammami, leader of PCOT

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Radhia Nasraoui: lawyer, human rights activist and president of the Tunisian Association for Combating Torture in Tunisia
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Radhia Nasraoui (l), lawyer, human rights activist and president of the Tunisian Association for Combating Torture in Tunisia with her husband Hamma Hammami, leader of the (unauthorized during Ben Ali regime) Communist Party of Tunisian Workers PCOT  (Parti Communiste des Ouvriers de Tunisie), and director of the (ex-banned) newspaper El Badil (‘‘The Alternative‘‘). Hamma was hiding many times, and also many years he was brutal tortured and imprisoned after unfair trials. They stand outside Cine Africa, av. Borguiba, that shows the documentary-film ‘‘No more fear‘ (connected to the revolution days).
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Radhia Nasraoui (l), lawyer, human rights activist and president of the Tunisian Association for Combating Torture in Tunisia with her husband Hamma Hammami, leader of the (unauthorized during Ben Ali regime) Communist Party of Tunisian Workers PCOT  (Parti Communiste des Ouvriers de Tunisie), and director of the (ex-banned) newspaper El Badil (‘‘The Alternative‘‘). Hamma was hiding many times, and also many years he was brutal tortured and imprisoned after unfair trials. They stand outside Cine Africa, av. Borguiba, that shows the documentary-film ‘‘No more fear‘ (connected to the revolution days).
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