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Tunisia Rearrests Journalist Zied El-Heni, WHO Launches Hunger Strike

Tunisia Rearrests Journalist Zied El-Heni, WHO Launches Hunger Strike

New York — Tunisian authorities must immediately release journalist Zied el-Heni, who has been placed in pretrial detention over a social media post last week, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday.

El-Heni, editor-in-chief of independent news site Tunisian Press, was arrested on April 24, 2026, after complying with a summons to appear before the Fifth Central Unit for Combating Information and Communication Technology Crime in the capital, Tunis. He started a hunger strike on April…

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