Goodbye Lina Ben Mhenni, a symbol of the tunisian Revolution

It was more fragile than we thought, all, Lina Ben Mhenni . That spirit of his, that not even the prison or the barrel had bent, it seemed overwhelming, too great for a physical small and vulnerable. It was easy to admire a fighting spirit and a level of rigour that strabordavano, and was even more easy to forget the suffering of the body, that Lina had never wanted to hide, and that is over this night.

the Daughter of Sadok Ben Mhenni, militant marxist imprisoned by the Habib Bourghiba , blogger, and university professor of Linguistics, in 2011, Lina had won a role in the tunisian political, telling the story with his post frank and I decided on the blog “A girl in tunisia” to what she called the “Revolution of dignity” to conquer even at the age of 28, the candidacy to the Nobel peace prize.

there was No possible embankment Lina: passed by the complaints against the corrupt attacks against the fundamentalism of the islamic party Ennahdha, from activism against torture to the collection of books for the prisoners in the prisons. Never satisfied with what his Country had to tear: she wanted the fulfillment of a dream, a Tunisia democratic and modern, with a place for the youth division, and a true between politics and religion. Just needed to remind you, that the Revolution was successful, if not to change the world, or at least to rip the gag from the tunisian.

Lina had kidney problems, had received an organ as a gift from the mother, but the transplant had not gone well. And his health conditions were aggravated for the ill-treatment suffered by police officers – denounced her – they knew well where to strike her. In recent months the situation had worsened, and friends tried to convince her to try a treatment abroad, but she eventually had decided to stay in Tunisia, because, he said, “a lot of people here have need of me.”

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