Every Friday, Ines Zeghidi, 22, prepares herself. Two years ago, she put her studies in France on hold to take turns with other family members bringing the precious basket of food to which each prisoner is entitled, but also to spend 15 minutes in the visiting room with her father, Murad Zeghidi.“I talk to him through a glass pane, using a telephone receiver, in one of the booths lined up along a long corridor. Usually, I spend the whole day waiting among dozens and dozens of families in an overcrowded prison. It feels like being back in the 1970s,” she says. Profile Steadfast on her orange line, Mona Khalil lived to protect life She is supposed to be entitled to a “special visit” once a month, face-to-face, where she can physically touch her father. “But in over two years, this has only been allowed once,” Ines explains.Two...
Every Friday, Ines Zeghidi, 22, prepares herself. Two years ago, she put her studies in France on hold to take turns with other family members bringing the precious basket of food to which each prisoner is entitled, but also to spend 15 minutes in the visiting room with her father, Murad Zeghidi.“I talk to him through a glass pane, using a telephone receiver, in one of the booths lined up along a long corridor. Usually, I spend the whole day waiting among dozens and dozens of families in an overcrowded prison. It feels like being back in the 1970s,” she says. Profile Steadfast on her orange line, Mona Khalil lived to protect life She is supposed to be entitled to a “special visit” once a month, face-to-face, where she can physically touch her father. “But in over two years, this has only been allowed once,” Ines...
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