Ayachi Hammami

Ayachi Hammami is a Tunisian lawyer and human rights defender. He has played a significant role in Tunisia’s legal, political, and civil society landscape, particularly in defense, of human rights, judicial independence, the rule of law and political plurality. Quotes I have spent years fighting for democracy, freedom, rights. I will turn my cell into a new front of struggle. If you are seeing this video, I have been arrested. Tunisia arrests prominent opponent Hammami to enforce 5-year jail term The refusal of the minister of justice to reinstate the dismissed judges as per the administrative court’s order amounts to a crime of corruption under the law. https://www.amnesty.org/ a court that lost all its independence sham trial based on unfounded charges and riddled with violations of due process and fair trial rights. My father’s arrest is only the latest example in the crackdown on dissent, political opposition and all forms of critical expression in Tunisia He has fought for human rights, justice and democracy all his life, and he will continue to do so from his prison cell. He was steadfast and smiling until the end. He left us with a message of strength and inspiration, and nothing will change that. Said by Fida Hammami to The Associated Press External links Category: Living people Category:1959 births Category:Lawyers from Tunisia Category:Activists from Tunisia Category:Human rights activists