French PhD student Victor Dupont was detained in Tunisia on breach of state security charges 12 days ago, and French authorities are trying to negotiate his release, the director of his research lab, ...

A French student researching the career paths of 2011 protesters in Tunisia has been held in the North African country since ...

Victor Dupont, a French PhD student, has been detained in Tunisia on charges of breaching state security. French authorities, including his research director Vincent Geisser, are attempting to secure ...

"This is an attack on academic freedom," Vincent Geisser, director of the French Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds at Aix-Marseille University (Iremam), told press ...

His university has denounced the arrest as an attack on fundamental liberties. "This is an attack on academic freedom," Vincent Geisser, director of the French Institute of Research and Study on the ...

Vincent Geisser, said. Dupont, 27, was arrested just before midday on Oct. 19 at his home in a suburb of Tunis along with three friends visiting from France, according to one of the friends ...

Victor Dupont, a 27-year-old doctoral student, had been in Tunisia for around 10 days conducting research interviews, Vincent Geisser, director of the Institute for Research and Studies on the ...

Vincent Geisser, director of the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim Worlds at France's Aix-Marseille University, told AFP. "He was detained by Tunisian police on Saturday ...

Victor Dupont, a 27-year-old doctoral student, had been in Tunisia for around 10 days conducting research interviews, Vincent Geisser, director of the Institute for Research and Studies on the ...