Opposition figure Chebbi suspends hunger strike after prison pledge

Ahmed Néjib Chebbi, the 80-year-old opposition figure serving a 12-year sentence in the conspiracy-against-state-security case, suspended the hunger strike he began on October 1 over restrictions on detainees' access to information, his family said on Wednesday. Prison administration representatives met him and pledged, within their authority, to guarantee detainees' access to reliable information. His family said he had lost significant weight and was taken to hospital several times during the week, and described the suspension as a gesture of good faith pending real implementation of that pledge.

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