[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian women's rights activists on Thursday (October 10th) staged a protest in front of the city hall in Sfax to denounce "sex jihad", Shems FM reported.The head of the local office of the Association of Democratic Women, Najoua Baccar, said that the women involved in "jihad annikah" were victims of extremists. The women's rights advocate called on the Tunisian government to assume full responsibility for the tragedy.
For months, media reports have circulated about young women from Tunisia and other Maghreb countries that were recruited to provide companionship to jihadist fighters in Syria.