Tunisia

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Tunisia leader Saied’s opponents, supporters stage rival rallies | Protests News
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Tunisia leader Saied’s opponents, supporters stage rival rallies | Protests News

Riot police have been deployed in large numbers to separate the groups in Tunis. Opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied have protested on...

Tunisian judge orders detention of prominent lawyer Ahmed Souab | News
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Tunisian judge orders detention of prominent lawyer Ahmed Souab | News

Souab is a fierce critic of President Kais Saied and was arrested for comments about the judiciary acting under duress. A Tunisian judge...

‘I don’t know where I will go’: Refugees run out of options in Tunisia | Migration News
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‘I don’t know where I will go’: Refugees run out of options in Tunisia | Migration News

Patricia is sobbing over the phone. About a dozen Tunisian policemen came to her camp this morning to tell her and the other...

Tunisian court hands opposition figures lengthy jail terms | Human Rights News
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Tunisian court hands opposition figures lengthy jail terms | Human Rights News

Dozens of defendants found guilty of “conspiracy against state security” and given sentences of 13 to 66 years. Dozens of opposition figures in...

Allies say Ghannouchi ‘unjustly’ held, as he marks 2 years in Tunisian jail | Human Rights News
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Allies say Ghannouchi ‘unjustly’ held, as he marks 2 years in Tunisian jail | Human Rights News

International Committee for Solidarity with Rached Ghannouchi decries ‘repressive campaign’ against Ennahdha party leader. Marking the second anniversary of the arrest of Tunisia’s prominent...

‘Conspiracy trial’ restarts: What’s Tunisia’s history with death penalty? | Human Rights News
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‘Conspiracy trial’ restarts: What’s Tunisia’s history with death penalty? | Human Rights News

A mass trial is set to resume in Tunisia of more than 40 people accused of various conspiracies against the Tunisian state and...

Tunisia mass trial highlights opposition crackdown, weakening of judiciary | Human Rights News
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Tunisia mass trial highlights opposition crackdown, weakening of judiciary | Human Rights News

For detractors of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, the trial of more than 40 opposition figures is quite clearly a further nail in the...

Jailed Tunisian opposition figure Jaouhar Ben Mbarek goes on hunger strike | Human Rights News
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Jailed Tunisian opposition figure Jaouhar Ben Mbarek goes on hunger strike | Human Rights News

Ben Mbarek, along with about 40 other critics of the president, is being tried on state conspiracy charges. A jailed Tunisian opposition activist...

Tunisia’s president sacks third prime minister in less than two years | Politics News
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Tunisia’s president sacks third prime minister in less than two years | Politics News

Kamel Maddouri’s dismissal comes amid economic and political crises under President Kais Saied, who rules by decree. Tunisian President Kais Saied has fired...