At the beginning of December 2025, following multiple cases of suffocation affecting students at Gabes City Preparatory School due to emissions from the Gabes Chemical Group, environmental activist Islem Zrelli went to the site of the incident to film and document the event. According to his account, this was done at the request of the families of the affected students. He documented the incident through a live broadcast on his Facebook page, where he regularly publishes content related to the environmental crisis in Gabes.<\/p>\n
Zrelli reported that only one and a half minutes after starting the live broadcast, he was approached by a plainclothes police officer who demanded that he stop filming and immediately end the live stream. He added that the officer attempted to seize his phone without providing any explanation. When the officer tried to forcibly take the phone, Zrelli refused to hand it over and was subsequently threatened with arrest. The officer warned him that his actions would expose him to legal prosecution, justifying this threat by claiming that filming inside educational institutions was prohibited.<\/p>\n
During this time, Zrelli attempted to contact a family member or a friend to inform them of what was happening to him, but the police officer forcibly prevented him from making any phone call. Instead, the officer called for a police patrol, which arrived at the scene, arrested Zrelli, and forcibly took him to the police station, in a clear violation of his right to communicate with his family and inform them of his situation.<\/p>\n
In the course of these events, Zrelli attempted to hand his phone to one of the students present at the school, fearing that it would be confiscated, forcibly accessed, or that its contents would be deleted or searched without any legal basis. The officers noticed this attempt, which led to him being subjected to verbal abuse, insults, and humiliation, reflecting a serious breach of the law and a violation of his human dignity.<\/p>\n
Subsequently, the school principal was summoned and it emerged that she had filed a complaint against him on the grounds of filming educational staff inside the institution. Zrelli, however, asserted that the video only showed students and their families. After lengthy discussions, the principal agreed to withdraw the complaint on the condition that the video documenting the suffocation cases be deleted, in exchange for Zrelli signing a written undertaking not to publish or film in the future. Zrelli was released only after signing the written commitment and deleting the video he had posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7021,"template":"","meta":{"datee":1764619200,"govern":" Gabes Delegation","violation_location_map":"V3QX+62J\u060c \u0642\u0627\u0628\u0633\u060c \u062a\u0648\u0646\u0633\u200e"},"ecupation":[230],"case_status":[231],"governorate":[267],"violation_type":[242],"class_list":["post-8582","violations","type-violations","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ecupation-230","case_status-231","governorate-gabes-governorate","violation_type-violation-of-freedom-of-opinion-and-expression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violations\/8582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violations"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/violations"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violations\/8582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8584,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violations\/8582\/revisions\/8584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ecupation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecupation?post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"case_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_status?post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"governorate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/governorate?post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"violation_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.intersection.uno\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violation_type?post=8582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}