Zouhair Makhlouf attends the first session of the Tunisian parliament after the election of the new president of the Tunisian parliament in Tunis, Tunisia on November 13, 2019. Photo by Nicolas Fauque/Images de Tunisie/ABACAPRESS.COMNo
The high school student who took the photos and published them on social media, who was a minor at the time, said he had followed her to school and pressed charges of sexual harassment and indecent assault. Many women used the hashtag #EnaZeda — Tunisian Arabic for “me too” — an echo of the #MeToo movement sparked by the Harvey Weinstein affair in the United States in 2017.
They said the inquiry had gone far beyond the normal nine months despite the presence of “solid proof”.