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A U.S. State Department report, issued in April 2011, depicts the status of human rights in that country on the eve of the revolution, citing "restrictions on freedom of speech, press and association", the "severe" intimidation of journalists, reprisals against critical of the government, questionable conduct of elections, and reports of arbitrary arrest, widespread corruption, official ...
The 2,000-page, Arabic-language record of human rights abuses is available online. Among the offenses mentioned in the report are unfair trials in 1963 regarding an attempted military coup against President Habib Bourguiba; Tunisia's late president, Béji Caïd Essebsi, was involved in those trials as then-director of national security. [7]
The IFEX-TMG found that there had been a significant deterioration of human rights in Tunisia since the last IFEX-TMG mission in 2007. The report records a number of recurring cases of harassment, surveillance, and imprisonment of journalists and human rights activists some of whom have been detained in harsh conditions, physically harassed and ...
Tunisia's coast guard retrieved the bodies of nine people who died after their boat sank on Thursday, marking the latest disaster for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. The ...
Migrants in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax who are aiming to make Europe their new home are now sharing the burden and the blame for escalating tensions deeply tinged with racism, amid the fears of ...
The Tunisian Human Rights League (Arabic: الرابطة التونسية للدفاع عن حقوق الإنسان, romanized: al-Rābiṭah al-Tūnisīyah lil-Difāʻ ʻan Ḥuqūq al-Insān, French: Ligue tunisienne des droits de l'homme, or LTDH) is an association to observe and defend human rights in Tunisia.
Tunisia's public prosecutor on Tuesday detained Saadia Mosbah, a prominent activist and head of a nongovernmental group that defends the rights of migrants, human rights groups said, hours after ...
FTDES is a member organization of the EuroMed Rights network alongside other Tunisian organizations including the Committee for the Respect of Freedom and Human Rights in Tunisia (CRLDHT), the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD), the Federation of Tunisians for a Citizenship of the Two Shores (FTCR), and the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH). [12]