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Mohammed Abbou

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In March 2005, writer, lawyer, and human rights activist Abbou was arrested for an article published nine months earlier denouncing torture in Tunisia. He was released in July 2007, but in October of that year Tunisian authorities blocked him from traveling to Cairo.