Since Monday March 31, Sonia Dahmani, lawyer and columnist, a free figure in Tunisia, has been on a wildcat hunger strike at Manouba prison. This extreme gesture is neither a whim nor a posture. It is the last resort of a woman who is exhausted, humiliated, hungry, thirsty, but always on her feet. A woman who, faced with the silence of institutions, the cowardice of judges and the violence of an inhuman prison system, chooses to expose her own body to resist.

In a moving account published by her sister Ramla Dahmani on her FB page, we read what no official statement says, what cold bureaucracy hides, what the authorities would like to keep quiet. Sonia no longer has access to drinking water: ten days without being able to buy or supply it. Tap water is rusty and toxic. Families, forbidden to bring in bottles, watch helplessly as the water slowly suffocates. Last Friday, a janitor moved by her distress discreetly offered her a pack of water. Sonia shared it with her fellow inmates. Because in prison, even survival is shared. Solidarity becomes instinct.

This thirst is compounded by institutionalized hunger: since the closure of the canteen, the inmates have been living on what's left - often oil, the only foodstuff available. That's all Sonia had for a whole weekend. No bread, no milk. Not even anything to soothe the heartburn.

And as if this ordeal wasn't enough, the disease has set in: Sonia suffers from respiratory distress, she runs out of breath, struggles to find air. She asked for a consultation. She was told that the doctor was away. Fifteen days of waiting. Finally, on Friday, she saw a doctor, who prescribed a treatment to start immediately. But on the following Monday, the medication still hadn't arrived. Was it negligence? Or a deliberate intention to slowly extinguish her?

In this prison environment where even newspapers, radios and letters are confiscated, Sonia still resists. She laughs. She reassures. To her father, she says, "I'm fine. She smiles at him. She stands up proud. Strong. Even if she's only skin and bones.

Her sister Ramla writes: "Do they want to kill her? Is this the plan?"

This question must resonate in every conscience. We respond with a demand: "Sonia Dahmani must be released immediately and unconditionally".

Because Sonia Dahmani is not a criminal. She is detained for her ideas, for her free speech, for having dared to say that arbitrariness is not a policy and that prisons are not a government program. She is now imprisoned in her own body, but her spirit remains indomitable.

Faced with this untenable situation, we

• Demand Sonia Dahmani's immediate and unconditional release,
• We demand independent, regular medical follow-up and access to urgent treatment;
• We denounce the cruel and degrading conditions of detention in Manouba prison, in flagrant violation of national law and international conventions;
• Let's call for national and international mobilization to ensure that what happened to Sonia is neither trivialized nor forgotten.

Ramla Dahmani's FB post is an act of truth. It is a living archive of institutional violence, a mirror held up to our society, a challenge to each and every one of us. Not to react would be to let not only a woman die, but a hope for justice.

Sonia Dahmani hasn't given up. Let's not give up on her.