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...

The Tunisian government’s attempts to dissolve Shams, a local association that defends the rights of LGBTI people, are a despicable assault on human rights, said Amnesty International, ahead of a court hearing over the organization’s fate tomorrow.  Tunisian authorities have launched an appeal to...

Tunisian authorities should immediately release Rania Amdouni, a prominent women’s rights defender and LGBTI activist, sentenced to six months in prison for “insulting a public officer”, and drop the spurious charges against her, said Amnesty International, ahead of her appeal on 17 March. On 27...

Tunisian authorities should immediately release Rania Amdouni, a prominent women’s rights defender and LGBTI activist, sentenced to six months in prison for “insulting a public officer”, and drop the spurious charges against her, said Amnesty International, ahead of her appeal on 17 March. On 27...

Badr Baabou, a human rights defender and LGBTI rights activist, was violently assaulted by police officers on the night of 21 October 2021 in downtown Tunis. Security forces have been targeting Badr Baabou for his work and activism in promoting the rights and freedoms of LGBTI people in Tunisia....

The use of torture in custody and human rights violations committed in the name of security and counterterrorism will continue unabated unless Tunisia lives up to the commitments it has made today at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, said Amnesty International. During today’s session, the...

The Tunisian government must demonstrate its commitment to human rights by accepting recommendations on combating torture, ending discrimination and protecting women and girls from sexual and gender based violence, said Amnesty International. The Tunisian government received recommendations from...

The jailing of six Tunisian men sentenced to three years in prison for sodomy is a shocking example of deep-rooted state sanctioned discrimination against LGBTI people in the country, said Amnesty International today. The men, some of them university students, appeared to have been convicted...

By Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International North Africa Researcher @magdamughrabi When Meriem Ben Mohamed was charged with “indecency” after she spoke out against rape by two police officers in 2012, her case sparked a wave of protests and a national campaign for legal change, marking a crucial...

Amnesty International has written to the Tunisian Minister of Human Rights to express its alarm at statements the Minister made about homosexuality in a television interview earlier this month. In a letter of 23 February, the organization urged Samir Dilou, Minister of Human Rights and Transitional...

While Tunisia has taken significant steps and made positive legal changes aimed at breaking with abuses of the past following the 2010-2011 uprising, human rights violations persist and repressive laws and practices remain. Torture, sexual violence and other ill-treatment by state agents continue...

Same-sex relations and LGBTI rights remain taboo and mainly unaccepted by society. Many LGBTI people experience rejection, discrimination, harassment and violence by their families and communities at every stage of their life. In mid-April 2016, a Tunisian actor stated in a televised interview that...

The Tunisian authorities must halt the prosecution of Emna Chargui for sharing a satirical social media post that some people considered offensive to Islam on her Facebook page and drop all charges against her, Amnesty International said today ahead of her trial set for 28 May. Since her Facebook...