Tunisian prosecutors order pretrial detention for Soumoud solidarity protesters

The Tunisian Human Rights League said prosecutors have issued detention warrants against several people arrested after a 19 September march demanding the release of detained Soumoud flotilla organisers. Those held include students, civil society activists, a doctor and a minor, according to their defence committee. Rights groups say the case has widened well beyond the flotilla detainees it began with.

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