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22 and tortured for being gay  [message #70287] Thu, 08 October 2015 16:20 Go to previous message
timmy

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Tortured for being gay. That’'s what happened to Marwan, a 22-year-old student in Tunisia. When police found text messages to other men on his phone, they arrested him. They performed a horrific medical exam to ‘prove’ that he was gay. You don'’t even want to know what they did.

If we don’'t speak up now, Marwan could spend the next year of his life in jail. But his conviction caused a public outcry in Tunisia. Politicians are feeling the heat, and several have spoken out against the ruling.

The government wants the world to think Tunisia is making progress on human rights after the Arab Spring. So they will pay attention if thousands of us stand up for Marwan – they don't want their image to be tarnished. We'’ll join a massive movement on the ground, and the pressure could be enough to release him.

Marwan’'s appeal is coming up and the authorities could decide at any moment whether to free him. Our partners in Tunisia have asked us to build a giant global petition that they will deliver to the authorities in just one week. Call for Marwan to be freed:

https://go.allout.org/en/a/free-marwan/

This is a campaign of the All Out Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.

[Updated on: Thu, 08 October 2015 16:22]



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