“When people want to live, destiny must surely respond. Darknesss will disappear, chains will certainly break!”
Journalist Taoufik
Ben Brik, 49, spurred admiration among his relatives and lawyers at a Tunis appeals court on Saturday when he chanted these two
verses by Abou El Kacem Chebbi, Tunisia's
most well-known poet. This unexpected recitation of Chebbi's verses, which
galvanized resistance to French occupation and autocratic rule after the
country's independence in 1956, followed the persecuted journalist’s first remarks
in court about his ordeal since his incarceration on
October 29. It was the first time he had been allowed to speak at his own
hearing.
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