Radhia Nasraoui
Radhia Nasraoui (* 1953 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian human rights lawyer who campaigns against torture.
Life
Radhia Nasraoui is made since the 1970s for human rights. Under President Habib Bourguiba were banned student and labor protests. 1976 convinced Nasraoui the lawyer's office, where she worked to defend students who were therefore accused. After the general strike in Tunisia, which was accompanied by bloody riots and numerous death toll, she opened her own law firm in 1978.
Radhia Nasraoui in 2003 was the founder and the chairman of the Association de lutte contre la torture en Tunisie, a group against torture in Tunisia. Radhia Nasraoui is married with Hamma Hammami, the spokesman for the Communist Workers Party of Tunisia. Hamma Hammami was sentenced on 31 March 2002 as a result of that party membership to a prison sentence of three years and two months. To force the release of her husband and to achieve political freedom for citizens of their country, Radhia Nasraoui went on a 38 - day hunger strike until August 2, 2002. On 4 September 2002 her husband came, for the also international human rights groups had used freely.
As a result of their work was Radhia Nasraoui repression and violence by police and resigned in protest from 15 October to 10 December once again in 2003 on a hunger strike.
Radhia Nasraoui, which was exposed to 2010/2011 government reprisals in the following years until the revolution in Tunisia, is regarded as the best known lawyer and voice against torture in Tunisia and as a thought leader of the Arab Spring. Even after the fall of Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, they complained about the arrest of torture and prisoner abuse. As a lawyer, she defended in 2013, the former Tunisian Femen activist Amina Tyler.
Radhia Nasraoui has three children.
Awards
On 16 November 2005, the Université Libre de Bruxelles Radhia Nasraoui awarded an honorary doctorate, pointing out their defense of human rights and commitment to the emancipation of Tunisian women.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Norwegian Peace Research Institute Oslo ( PRIO ) held it prior to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for probable that Radhia Nasraoui could be one of the representatives of the Arab Spring are among the honorees.
In November 2011, Radhia Nasraoui was that had the awarding foundation according to which " contributed significantly to the success of, Arab Spring ' and the protection of human dignity," one of the laureates of the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award. In 2012 she was awarded the Olof Palme Prize.