Tunisia: only three candidates accepted for presidential election
Claims of democracy fading in Tunisia may appear to be true as the nation’s electoral commission announced on August 10th...
Kais Saied
Tunisia: Saied continues crackdown on opposition
With Tunisia’s Presidential election two months away, a hopeful candidate’s team was arrested by the police on July 28th, hours...
Tunisia: Opposition party leader arrested ahead of elections
A leader of the opposition party in Tunisia was arrested on July 13th, according to a statement released by the...
Tunisia: Two journalists sentenced amid crackdowns
Tunisia’s increasingly paranoid regime is crushing any dissent with an iron fist, prosecuting those who publicly criticize the authoritarian government's...
Tunisia arrests sports officials in flag dispute
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied lashed out at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for a supposed slight in the latest of...
Tunisia: Three Saied critics arrested in police raid
Prominent Tunisian lawyer Sonia Dahmani, known for her fierce criticism of President Kais Saied, was arrested on May 11th according...
Tunisia detains prominent migrants’ rights activist
Tunisia’s public prosecutor detained prominent activist and migrants’ rights group head Saadia Mosbah on May 7th, according to Reuters. The...
Tunisia: Pamphlets on same-sex relations struck from book fair
Sex-ed pamphlets have been removed from the Tunis International Book Fair, its director claimed on April 25th, according to AFP....
Tunisia: Italy PM talks migration in state visit
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni praised Tunisia and her country’s shared priorities on fighting human trafficking and repatriating African migrants...
Tunisia: Carnegie report warns of impending debt crisis
Elation over a shipment of bananas has brought Tunisia’s grave economic situation into focus, according to Middle East Monitor on...
Tunisia: Saied compromises independence of central bank
The new Central Bank of Tunisia governor is charged with averting a debt crisis with IMF talks in limbo, according...
Tunisia: Banged up opposition leader on hunger strike
Banged up Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi began a hunger strike on February 19 in solidarity with the imprisoned dissidents...
1,300 lost at sea in 2023, Tunisian NGO claims
Just over 1,300 clandestine migrants died at sea attempting to get to the European continent from Tunisia last year, according...
Tunisia: Saied regime turns to Central Bank for bail out
Tunisia has requested billions of dollars from the Central Bank to aid its economic crisis, after rejecting EU funding, according...
Tunisian court tripled sentence of presidential opponent
In what has been called a corrupt move, a Tunisian court has tripled the prison term of a previous presidential...
