(ANSA) - TUNIS, MARCH 17 - LGBTQ activist and militant Rania Amdouni, sentenced last March 5, in first instance to six months' imprisonment "for public official" was released on appeal.
This was announced by the Tunisian association for Justice and Legality "Damj" thanking all supporters and specifying however that Ambdouni was sentenced on appeal to a fine of 200 dinars.
Just yesterday, over twenty civil society associations and Tunisian NGOs had reiterated the request for its liberation. Amdouni was arrested on February 27 when she went to a police barracks to denounce a campaign of threats and defamation against her "by the unions of the security forces and right-wing extremists". "Victim of a campaign of continuous harassment for many months due to her commitment and her militant presence in all social protest movements, Rania is today the target of a police and judicial drift to which the Tunisian authorities have chosen to give priority in response economic issues and the socio-political crisis that is suffocating the country ", the NGOs wrote in their appeal to the authorities.
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