Since November 8, Tunisian filmmaker and PhD student Nader Ayache has stopped eating. A man's life is now at stake because a six-year-old OQTF continues to pursue him, despite ten years of study, research, creation and work in France. The accusation is that he worked harder to finance his studies. It's not a failure: it's an act of survival. And there's nothing administrative about what he's going through today. It's violence.

"I'll stop my hunger strike the day I get a residence permit"
No one should have to say those words. When an artist, a researcher, a doctoral student has to weaken his body to exist in the eyes of the administration, it's the sign of a system that has lost all sense of human dignity.

Nader is not an isolated case. He is the revelation of a mechanism that crushes lives, trajectories and hopes. Absurd, mechanical OQTFs, disconnected from reality, which hit those who study, create, work and contribute. France cannot claim to be a land of culture and knowledge while allowing a researcher to collapse into obscurity.

The CRLDHT offers Nader Ayache its full, complete and unfailing support. We stand by him. We demand his immediate protection, a halt to all deportation proceedings and the issuance of a stable, humane and coherent residence permit. We refuse to allow a man's life to be put in danger for the sake of a piece of paper. We reject injustice, blindness and administrative brutality.

 We call for collective mobilization. Don't let this hunger strike disappear into silence. Spread the word. Spread the word. Refuse indifference. Nader's life matters. His dignity matters. And our solidarity must be as strong as his courage.

The CRLDHT stands by it. Unconditionally. Without hesitation. Without fail.