For your irreplaceable life, for the honor of the justice you defend, for those who love you and cannot bear to see your health so impaired and your life threatened.

Dear Ayachi Hammami,

On the 37th day of your hunger strike, we write to you with a sense of urgency, an urgency mixed with respect, admiration, and deep concern.
We know what each additional day costs. We also know that your action is neither an escape nor a search for sacrifice, but an ultimate political appeal, launched from confinement when all normal channels have been stifled.

We speak to you in the name of the values you have always defended: human dignity, the primacy of life, justice, solidarity, responsibility towards others, and the simple yet radical idea that no fight for freedom should be paid for with the loss of a life.

You have upheld these values in courtrooms, in the streets, in debates, among the most vulnerable, without distinction or calculation. Today, you carry them in your body, which has become the last place of resistance. But it is precisely because your life matters—to your family, to your loved ones, to those who are fighting, to future generations—that we implore you to end this hunger strike.

Your moral strength has never been a function of the suffering you endure, but rather of the clarity of your words, the consistency of your commitment, and your rare ability to bring people together across divides. It is this strength—lively, lucid, and unifying—that the struggle needs today.

The struggle needs you standing up, present, speaking, writing, advising, passing on information.

Think of your loved ones and those who, when they visit you, no longer recognize you because fatigue and weight loss have transformed you so much. Silent, their pain is sharp and violent. It does not detract from the nobility of your struggle; it simply reminds us of its human cost.

We ask you—not to abandon the struggle—but to change the terrain, to preserve your life as a common good.

Ending the hunger strike today does not mean giving in.

It means trusting in mobilization,
It means giving time to collective action,
It means refusing to allow injustice to be compounded by irreparable tragedy.

Ayachi, the justice you defend has never been a justice of death.

The freedom you are fighting for has never required you to disappear.

Stay with us! Stay alive!

In the name of friendship, solidarity, the ethics of life, and the just struggle,
we implore you: end your hunger strike!

We will continue the fight. With you.