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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