Bloggers and social media users were investigated or prosecuted for the peaceful online expression of their views, including for criticizing the government’s approach to dealing with COVID-19. Protests were staged against insufficient government aid and protection of health workers during the...

Hussein Baoumi is Foreign Policy advocacy officer at Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office. This opinion piece was originally published here by EUobserver. When I started as a researcher with Amnesty International in 2017, I had just moved to Tunisia, a country that had inspired and...

Tunisian authorities have stepped up their clampdown on the rights to freedom of expression and association ahead of the presidential elections on 6 October 2024, said Amnesty International, escalating their harassment of political opponents, restricting the work of journalists, human rights...

On 5 August 2024, the Tunis Court of First Instance sentenced opposition figure Abir Moussi to two years in prison under Decree-Law 54 following a complaint filed by the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) after she criticized the legislative elections process. Abir Moussi has been in...

On 1 August 2024, a Tunis investigative judge ordered the pre-trial detention of prominent human rights defender Sihem Bensedrine who was president of the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) until 2018. Sihem Bensedrine has been under investigation since February 2023 under charges of “fraud”,...

Upon completing a four-day visit to Tunisia, in which she met with human rights defenders, civil society representatives, the Tunisian Judges Association, lawyers, political parties, journalists, victims of human rights violations and families of arbitrarily detained people, Amnesty International’s...

Tunisian authorities stepped up their crackdown on the political opposition on 13 July 2024 with police arresting Ennahdha Secretary General, Ajmi Ouirimi, in Mannouba governorate along with two other party members, Mohamed Ghanoudi and Mosaab Gharbi, during what seemed to be a regular ID road...

The undersigned organizations call on the government of Tunisia to end its ongoing crackdown on the rights to free expression and free association and to respect the human rights of everyone in Tunisia.

Two years after summary dismissal of judges by the president, harassment, prosecutions and denial of rights of judges continue Tunisian authorities must end the ongoing erosion of judicial independence in the country, Amnesty International said today, marking two years since President Kais Saied...

Tunisian authorities have ramped up their crackdown on media and freedom of expression in recent weeks, sentencing two journalists and a media founder to prison sentences, detaining another media figure, and intimidating private media, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The...

The Tunisian authorities must immediately end prosecution of political opposition figures and release those who have been held for more than a year without valid grounds. Khayam Turki, Abdelhamid Jelassi, Issam Chebbi, Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, Ghazi Chaouachi and Ridha Belhaj have been detained...

Over the past two weeks, the Tunisian government has launched an unprecedented repressive clampdown against migrants, refugees, and human rights defenders working to protect their rights, as well as journalists, said Amnesty International today. This comes less than two weeks after a high-level...

On 11 May 2024, security forces, masked and in civilian clothing stormed the Bar Association offices in Tunis to arrest lawyer and media personality Sonia Dahmani. On 13 May, an investigative judge in the Tunis Court of First Instance ordered her detention pending investigation over critical...