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In February 2009, five Tunisian students (four of whom are pictured) went on a 59 day hunger strike in the student union headquarters in Tunis to protest their expulsion from university due to their union activities. The authorities ignored their demands. (L to R) Mohamed Bouallag, Ali Bouzazya, Tawfiq Louati and Chadly Alkrimi.

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