A few hours ago marked the two year anniversary of the moment Tunisian security forces arrested Mohammed Abbou.
The dastardly crime committed by this lawyer is almost laughable: criticizing conditions in Tunisian prisons and comparing them to Abu Ghraib. President Ben Ali's regime evidently decided Abbou should get to do some firsthand investigating of Tunisian prison conditions. Two year later, he's still in the slammer.
Readers may recall that as an act of protest, Abbou last year sewed his own mouth shut - in a gut-wrenchingly symbolic attempt to highlight the suppression of free speech in Tunisia. But our mouths aren't sewed shut, so why is the world so quiet about his case?
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