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On March 1, 2007, Tunisian human rights lawyer and activist Mohamed Abbou will complete his second year in prison. Abbou's supporters around the world have declared an international day of protest to call for his release from prison.  He is held in harsh conditions and has suffered beatings by prison guards and other inmates.

Abbou's wife, Samia Abbou, is being persistently harassed by the security forces as a result of her struggle for the release of her husband. Last December, while on her way to visit her husband with other human rights defenders, she was brutally assaulted and beaten by a group of forty men right in front of several police officers, who looked on without intervening.

Mohamed Abbou is serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for exposing torture in Tunisia in postings to a blog, and for comparing the treatment of prisoners in Tunisia to conditions in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.
 
Please participate in the International Day for the Release of Mohamed Abbou by urging the Tunisian authorities to free him immediately and unconditionally.

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