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Radhia Nasraoui

Tunisian lawyer

Radhia Nasraoui (Tunisian Arabic: راضية النصراوي; born 1953) is a Tunisian lawyer specializing in human rights, who militates particularly against the use of torture.^[1]

Struggle for human rights

In the 1970s, Radhia Nasraoui started campaigning for human rights, when the regime of President Bourguiba banned demonstrations by students and workers.

In 1976, she managed to convince her employing firm to defend students who are accused. Two years later, in the aftermath of the Black Thursday, a general strike accompanied by bloody riots and resulting in many deaths, Nasraoui opened her own firm.

1984 POLI-19880927 0010; letter of 29 September 1988 from Mr Ercini, Chair of the Committee on Political Affairs, to Lord Plumb, President of.

Tunisia is a constitutional republic with a multi-party, unicameral parliamentary system and a president with powers specified in the constitution.

The trial of Tunisia's most outspoken human rights lawyer, Radhia Nasraoui, and twenty co-defendants was attended by jurists representing.

The pattern of arrests, torture and imprisonment of opposition political activists and government critics remains entrenched and widespread.

On January 14, 2011, the day President Ben Ali fled from Tunisia, images of young.

She was one of the founders of the Association against Torture in Tunisia announced that 26 June 2003. Appointed president, she denounced what she sees as the "systematic torture" practiced in her country since the accession to power of President Ben Ali 7 November 1987.

Due to her professional activities in favor of human rights in Tunisia,