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Tunisia's powerful UGTT labour union condemned on Wednesday what it described as arbitrary arrest campaigns by the authorities, and renewed calls to its supporters to mobilise before planned ...
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 ...
Leading opposition parties in Tunisia asserted Wednesday that politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for holding democratic elections later this year.
Cash-strapped Tunisia wants to take the unprecedented step of borrowing billions from its central bank to address budget deficits and bandage its economic crisis, a step that experts warn could ...
6 August – A court sentences opposition leader Abir Moussi to two years in prison for insulting the Independent High Authority for Elections.The court also sentences four potential presidential candidates, including activist Nizar Chaari, to eight months in prison and bans them from running for office on charges of vote buying.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Imprisoned Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi went on hunger strike on Monday in solidarity with other anti-government figures waging a protest fast to demand their ...
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 ...
The politics of Tunisia takes place within the framework of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic, [1] with a president serving as head of state, prime minister as head of government, a unicameral legislature and a court system influenced by French civil law.