Tunisia suspends activities of civil and migrant rights group

On October 27th, the civil and migrant rights group, FTDES, announced that Tunisia’s government imposed a one-month ban on their activities to conduct a financial audit, according to Reuters.

The ban was also applied to several other rights groups to look for evidence of foreign funding, a women’s rights group, the Democratic Women Group , has also been affected. An FTDES’s official stated that the ban is the government’s latest move to crackdown on independent voices in Tunisia’s civil society.

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has been restricting both individual liberties and immigration into the country, and has frequently used pretexts of conspiracy against the state and foreign influence to justify his government’s actions.

Reuters, Maghrebi.org