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| EPISODE 9

Behind the Walls of the Interior

January 14, 2011. Malek is on Habib Bourguiba Avenue but has no idea of what's happening on the ground. He has been imprisoned for days in the Ministry of Interior holding cells. Malek, a young student and opponent of the Ben Ali regime, describes the cellars of the Ministry, the police violence and the notion of losing time.
14 September 2020
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Inkyfada Podcast
Directing
Bochra Triki, Oussema Gaidi
Editorial Support
Monia Ben Hamadi
Recording
Hazar Abidi
Editing, Sound Design & Mixing
Oussema Gaidi
Voice over
Bochra Triki
Subtitles
Yasmin Houamed
Illustration
Marwen Ben Mustapha

On January 14, 2011, Malek had already been locked up for a few days in the Ministry of the Interior for having led demonstrations in Cité Ettadhamen. He had no idea about the revolution that was taking place just outside.

For 8 days, Malek was subjected to violence and torture by the police, and still suffers from permanent repercussions to this day. Between the basement and the third floor, he was interrogated for hours, hooded and chained.

The police were trying to gather evidence against him so that they could have him imprisoned for "organising ademonstration". The young student had already psychologically prepared himself for persecution and imprisonment.

As he was cut off from the world, he naturally wondered: would he be transferred to a prison? Would the army take control and resort to using weapons?

Ben Ali's departure did not even cross Malek’s mind, and he only heard about it when upon his release on the 18th. It was not until that day that he heard the word "revolution".

When he left, he was met by an unrecognisable country: the streets were ruled by the people, the RCD (Ben Ali's former political party) was dissolved... 

For two years, Malek avoided the area of the Ministry of the Interior because of his severe trauma. Even today, he never lets his gaze wander to the third and fourth floors of the building.

A few years later, he even ran into one of his torturers in a bar. Malek recalls it all.

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