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Small silver studs through nose and above and below right eyebrow..., multilingual - Ben Mhenni's blog, 'A Tunisian Girl', was written in Arabic, English, and French and she worked at the University of Tunis as an English language assistant..., Her blog, as well as her Facebook and Twitter accounts, were censored under the Ben Ali regime..., Dark brown hair but sometimes dyed black..., Multiple small moles on chin and on each cheek..., She was the daughter of left-wing activist Sadok Ben Mhenni, one of the founders of the Tunisian section of Amnesty International..., "The Tunisian national anthem, chants and political battle cries echoed over the Jellaz cemetery in Tunis, where hundreds of Tunisians paid their last respects to Lina Ben Mhenni. "Rest in peace, Lina, we continue the fight," chanted the mourners"..., "The petite but energetic activist was an honest fighter, always guided by her conscience, never by political calculation"..., "She was a symbol of the youth in Tunisia and always worked to improve the living conditions of the youth," said Rached, a friend of the deceased..., Ben Mhenni was critical of the dictatorship of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, which lasted more than two decades, and traveled widely for her blog “A Tunisian Girl” to collect statements and photos of citizens across the country..., At a time when media freedom was restricted and the Internet was censored, her reporting helped publicize the authorities’ crackdown on protesters. After the revolution she continued to be an activist for human rights..., Continuously criticizing the Islamist Ennahdha party, which governed in a coalition with two other parties from late 2011 until early 2014.
Several times Ben Mhenni received death threats for her activism and criticism of the authorities and Islamists..., "She was a symbol of the Tunisian revolution, she was the luminous face of this new Tunisia that brings together ambitious and talented young people who do not accept injustice"..., Ben Mhenni was diagnosed with lupus at age 11 and had had a kidney transplant. Her health condition had deteriorated in recent weeks. But she kept answering the same thing until the last moment: "I'm in top shape"..., "Beneath that small, lean body was a woman hiding with boundless strength who drew her claws to defend every corner of freedom"..., Recently, Lina has been working on an entirely new, laudable initiative: giving out books in prisons, which is her way of fighting against the hardline Islamism in her country..., Lina Ben M’henni worked with the FRANCE 24 Observers team on other occasions: telling us about how a year after the revolution, those wounded during the protests still hadn’t received the compensation promised by Ennahda, the political party that came to power in the first elections after Ben Ali was deposed...
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Blogger, Linguistics Lecturer, Democracy Activism, The Arab Spring, English teacher, Civil rights and equality Activism, Internet activism, Anti Islamism Activism
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