Solidarity with Ghassen ben Khalifa, Tunisian journalist and militant for the Palestinian cause!
Saied's Tunisian police state regime continues to persecute the political and social militant for the Palestinian cause, the journalist Ghassen ben Khalifa, through constructed accusations.
Already in the summer of 2022, Ghassen had been accused of managing a Facebook page linked to Islamist radicalism and therefore accused of terrorism, this accusation immediately appeared as a blatant fabrication given that Ghassen is notoriously a militant of the revolutionary left.
Incidentally, it was the first case of judicial persecution against a revolutionary militant since the Ben Ali regime; not even the post-revolt restoration governments, better known with the misleading formula of "democratic transition" (2011-2021), had prosecuted left-wing militants.
After five days of detention and a large demonstration of solidarity in Tunis in the middle of summer, Ghassen was finally released from prison but the judicial proceedings had not yet been closed.
Court hearings followed in which the real manager of the offending page declared each time that he himself was the manager of the pages and the author of the publications and that he did not know Ghassen.
Meanwhile, the accusation of "offending others through social media" and "participation in a terrorist plot" and "offensive conduct towards the president" was also added.
Last March 14, the judge of first instance of the court of Ben Arous (Greater Tunis area) sentenced Ghassen to 6 months of imprisonment, not with immediate effect pending a further hearing which involves the examination of the most serious charges for next April 5th.
Our party expresses sincere solidarity with comrade Ghassen Ben Khalifa, denounces Saied's reactionary police state regime supported by imperialism, including Italian imperialism today represented by the neo-fascist Meloni government.
maoist Communist Party of Italy
Proletarian Red Aid - Italy
03/16/2024
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