Benjamin Girette Photographer

Students discuss at Manouba university while ultraconservative Muslims known as Salafists hold a press conference to announce that 5 students will start a hunger strike Tuesday to demand the right to wear the Niqab, have full access to classrooms and a prayer room inside the university. For more than a month classes and exams at Manouba University's humanities department have been put on hold by a sit-in demanding students be allowed to attend class in the conservative face veil, known as the niqab. In Tunis, January 16th 2012. © Benjamin Girette / IP3PRESS