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MK_REDEYEF_03 Old men play traditional backgammon © Maro Kouri
Street life in Redeyef
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‘’I kept all my 9 children in the house during the revolution days. I did not want them dead‘‘, Mr Mohammad says, outside his straw warehouse

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Old men play traditional backgammon
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Young men in an empty play station cafe of Redeyef
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Streetlife of Redeyef
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In the market of Redeyef
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Portrait of a woman in the streets of Redeyef
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On 2008 Redeyef’ protests, journalist Mr Bukatous was reporting directly for the satellite channel Hersuar. This was enough for Ben Ali regime to judge him. For a year he was hidden till they found him, tortured and imprisoned him. How can he forget? On 29, May 2011 he visited the totally burnt police station of Redeyef.

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They ‘ve been imprisoned, insulted and tortured, because of their ideology. Ms Bennnacer Afer, 39, she was imprisoned for two years, when she was student in 1994. ‘‘The policemen of Ben Ali regime were using different styles of torturing‘‘, she says. She was one of the activists during the 2008 Redeyef revolution together with 27-years old Chraiti Ghamem who was studying nursing when he was kicked out from the university by minister‘ decision. Policemen tortured him naked in front of his son
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Women of Erdeyef are fighting for work, dignity and education since 2008, when men have been hidden in caves to protect themselves from armed police, or have been imprisoned. Many women have been imprisoned and tortured by police of Ben Ali dictatorship. 
On May 29, 2011 they welcomed Hamma Hammami, spokesperson for the banned Tunisian Workers’ Communist Party (Parti Communiste des Ouvriers Tunisiens, PCOT). Hammami was acting illegally during Ben Ali regime when communism was an illegal movement (and Islamism too).
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View of Redeyef
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