Badra Qallol reveals 200 women in Tunisian prisons

The Chief of the International Center for Strategic, Security and Military Studies, in Tunisia, Badra Qallol, that more than 200 Tunisian women are in prison, on charges of extremism.
 
Qallol added, in an interview with Arabs Today, that these women are from the popular neighborhoods,  and aged between 20 and 34 years old, indicating that the age of most of them not to exceed 25 years, while there are three or four at the age of 34, among them university students.

Tunisian National Guard managed succeed, earlier, to arrest six extremist women aged between 21 and 23 years old, in Ariana governorate.

Qallol explained the women's roles in extremist organizations, indicating that many of them are ready to blow up themselves, adding that women played an important role in the various terrorist operations that took place in Tunisia, in Bardo and Sousse.

" The extremist women's function is to provide the logistic support and espionage," she stated, adding  that there are those who oversees the communication processes, and attracting the adolescents.

She explained that the US attack on Sabratha revealed the presence of women, stressing that the female element is still used in extremism, where investigations show that a large number of social networking pages bearing women's names.