Four activists face trial Thursday over Sumud Flotilla solidarity march

Kaïs Bouzouzia, Mariem Halfaoui, Marouen Bedhiafi and Hadhami Hammami are due before the Tunis Court of First Instance on Thursday, prosecuted over a September 19 march in support of Sumud Flotilla detainees who were on hunger strike. A defence coordination group says at least 13 people, and by some counts more than 15, were arrested the night after that march, for reasons authorities never stated, and the rights group Contre la criminalisation de l'action civile calls the hearings a new step in the repression of activism. The case follows the release this week of a 17-year-old held in the same march, after President Saied ordered his school reinstatement.

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