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Tunisia had requested a three-year $4 billion loan "to help stabilise its balance of payments position after its current account deficit widened to 7.1 percent of GDP last year." [ 22 ] Amnesty International asked the government to "publicly commit to respecting and protecting human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression ...
Tunisia was upgraded to "Partly Free" after the revolution (often associated with the so-called Arab Spring, with its political rights rating improved from 7 to 3 (with 7 the worst and 1 the best) and its civil liberties rating going from 5 to 4. [1] As of 2016, Tunisia has been upgraded to "Free"—the only Arab country to receive this rating. [2]
The 2021 Tunisian protests were a series of protests that started on 15 January 2021.Thousand of people rioted in cities and towns across Tunisia, which saw looting and arson as well as mass deployment of police and army in several cities and the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.
In September 2022, the Tunisian president Kais Saied signed Decree Law 54, which purported to combat "false information and rumours" on the Internet.Article 24 of the decree gives up to five years imprisonment and a fine of up to 50,000 dinar for anyone found to be spreading such information.
The leader of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party was sentenced to 15 months in prison for supporting terrorism and inciting hatred in the North African country, once seen as a model for democracy ...
2021 political crisis in Tunisia This page was last edited on 1 August 2023, at 17:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Issam Guerfel, lawyer and former member of the Free Destourian Party, announced his candidacy in July 2024. Azmi Belhaj Ahmed, PhD in chemistry, announced his candidacy in July 2024. Karim Gharbi, known as K2Rhym, former rapper and son-in-law of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, [39] ran as an independent candidate. [40]
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