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Tunisian Students End 58-day Hunger Strike On Doctors Pleas

Al-Maghreb News Updates

11 April 2009

Tunis - Doctors have persuaded four Tunisian students on hunger strike for 58 days in a bid to be allowed to attend university, to suspend their protest, their union said on Friday.

A fifth student, who joined them two days into their hunger strike, has also called off his protest.

"The five students have suspended their hunger strike at the request of doctors who consider their health very poor," the General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET) said in a statement.

Doctors, concerned at a dramatic deterioration in their condition, urged them to call off their strike and enter hospital for immediate treatment or risk "irreversible complications."

Four of the five students, aged 23 to 27 had gone without food at the UGET's rundown offices in central Tunis since February 11.

The fifth student, who started his hunger strike two days later, on February 13, is campaign for the release of his brother, jailed after unrest at Gafsa in southwest Tunisia.

The first four students say they were banned from university because of their union activities. But the education ministry has accused them of violence. A fifth joined

"Their only crime is to have acted as elected student representatives," the UGET statement said, accusing authorities of arbitary explusion from studies by "illegal disciplinary councils."

But the education ministry said these councils were perfectly legal. They said the students had carried out verbal and physical violence when they kidnapped a university dean and prevented access to classes.

The suspension of their protest on Thursday coincided with the start of a union congress that will decide on the next phase in the protest, the union added. - AFP

 

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