Radio Kalima correspondent Nebrass Hedhili badly beaten

Radio Kalima correspondent Nebrass Hedhili was badly beaten by plain-clothes police in the centre of La Chebba (65 km north of Sfax) as he was about to cover a demonstration organized by the Taleb Chebbi association outside the headquarters of the wilaya (provincial government). Hedhili was barely conscious when the police put him in a vehicle and then dumped him at the side of a road leading out of the town. He was taken to La Chebba’s main hospital and was admitted to its intensive care unit. He had narrowly avoided being caught by the police while covering a demonstration organized by the UGTT union the day before in Tunis.