US EditionA French student who was arrested and detained in Tunisia returns to Paris
- A French doctoral student, Victor Dupont, returned to Paris after being detained in Tunisia for 27 days, following extensive diplomatic efforts.
- Dupont’s arrest raised international concern about the treatment of foreign researchers in Tunisia under President Kais Saied.
- Asli Bali highlighted that Dupont’s case signals growing constraints on academic freedom and could jeopardize social scientific investigation in Tunisia.
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Imprisoned since October 19, the apprentice researcher was released on Tuesday and arrived in France on Friday November 15. The Quai d'Orsay did not comment on the circumstances of his release.
Arrested on October 19 while conducting sociological research in Tunis, the 27-year-old doctoral student returned to France. The reason for his arrest has not been officially announced.
The detention of this doctoral student was announced on October 31 by the director of his research laboratory at Aix-Marseille University.
Victor Dupont was conducting research in Tunisia on the socio-professional trajectory of “people who may have been engaged at the time of the 2011 Revolution”. The doctoral student arrested on October 19 by order of military justice has been reunited with his loved ones.
Victor Dupont “was released from prison on November 12 and returned to France today”, said Christophe Lemoine, the spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry.
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