News Center- Tunisian journalist Chadha Hadj Mbarek, who has been imprisoned in the Messaadibe prison, has been on a hunger strike since May 14, 2025, her brother, Amen Hadj Mbarek, said in a post on Facebook on Thursday.

According to the post, Chadha Hadj Mbarek went on a hunger strike on Wednesday to protest her denial of medical care. “My sister no longer takes painkillers because her stomach can no longer tolerate them,” her brother said in his post, stressing that painkillers cause his sister to suffer from unbearable pain, vomiting, and fainting.

Tunisian journalist Chadha Hadj Mbarek was arrested at her home in the city of Sousse on October 5, 2021. She was released from prison June 19, 2023. However, she was arrested again after a state prosecutor filed an appeal.

On February 5, 2025, she was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of “conspiring against state security” and “committing an offense against the President of the Republic.”