The hearing of lawyer Lazher Akremi, who was arrested on February 13 in the so-called case «conspiracy against state security,» was postponed until May 17, said his defence lawyers’ committee.
“The postponement is due to the unavailability of a means of transportation from the prison to the headquarters of the Judicial Counter-Terrorism Division that meets minimum humanitarian standards,” it said in a statement Friday.
The committee added that Akremi refused to get into the vehicle describing it as “a torture car”. The same decision was made by all detainees implicated in the case of «conspiracy against state security.»
The detainees, last April 6, refused to leave the prison for whatever reason to protest conditions of transport on security vehicles.
The list of political detainees include Chaïma Issa, Ghazi Chaouachi, Issam Chebbi, Khayem Turki, Jawhar Ben M’barek, Abdelhamid Jelassi, Ridha Belhadj and Lazher Akremi.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse