Tunisia releases opposition Communist party leader
Tunisian authorities Friday released opposition figure Hamma Hammami, the
leader of the banned Tunisian Workers' Communist Party, three days after
arresting him, the party said.
"We've just heard that he's been released. He's at home," party official Adel
Thabet told reporters in Paris, after family members had expressed fears for
the 59-year-old leftist's life in government custody.
Hammami has been working underground to escape arrest since February last
year,
but in recent weeks has spoken to foreign media to support the protests
against
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's authoritarian regime.
On Wednesday his wife, the lawyer Radia Nasraoui, said he had been snatched
from his home in Tunis by officers of the political police and was being held
incommunicado and without charge.
In the past 24 hours, amid unprecedented protests against his 23-year-long
rule, Ben Ali has sent mixed signals: first promising to share political power
and halt a violent crackdown, then declaring a state of emergency.
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