Maro Kouri - Photography and Journalism - Tunisia: A revolution for dignity

Tunisia: A revolution for dignity: Redeyef
	Redeyef is a town in the Gafsa Governorate, southwest Tunisia with population of 28,000. 3000 of them are graduates but jobless. I ‘ve met people of 50 years old, who had never a stabled job. City industry is mainly based on phosphate mining. On 2008 the miners decided to protest for their rights by demonstrations, hunger strikes and occupations. Women were fighting too. To escape from arrestment, workers had hidden in the caves outside the town where women brought them food. Ben Ali sent police forces to ‘drown’ the revolts. Men and women have imprisoned and tortured. Some of them got free after the 2010 revolution… Of course, there was no freedom for the press to speak about the 2008 miners’ uprising. Report & photography by Maro Kouri

Tunisia: A revolution for dignity