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Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights, one of the oldest rights groups in Africa and the Arab world and part of the National Dialogue Quartet awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, in the latest move raising concerns over a widening crackdown...

A Tunisian court has sentenced prominent opposition leader Abir Moussi to 12 years in prison amid a sweeping crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied, who has said he is cleansing the North African country of “traitors.” Lawyer Nafaa Laribi, who represented Moussi, the leader of the Free...

Tunisians took to the streets of downtown Tunis on Saturday to protest what they described as President Kais Saied ’s increasingly authoritarian rule and demand the release of all jailed political prisoners. The rally, held under the banner “Against Injustice,” brought together families of political...

A Tunisian judge has ordered the detention of prominent lawyer Ahmed Souab, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied, lawyers said, two days after his arrest for comments about the judiciary. Souab’s arrest sparked widespread anger among political parties and civil society groups, which said the move...

Tunisian activists protested near a Tunis court where prominent figures face charges of conspiring against state security in a trial that the opposition says is fabricated and a symbol of President Kais Saied’s authoritarian rule. Rights groups say the trial highlights Saied’s full control over the...

President Kais Saied won a landslide victory in Tunisia's election Monday, keeping his grip on power after a first term in which opponents were imprisoned and the country's institutions overhauled to give him more authority. The North African country’s Independent High Authority for Elections said...

A Tunisian court sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to 12 years in prison on Tuesday, amid growing opposition anger against President Kais Saied, whose critics accuse him of using the judiciary to sideline his opponents. It was the third prison sentence imposed on Zammel in two weeks...

In Tunisia, hundreds of protesters marched again on Sunday, accusing President Kais Saied of deepening authoritarianism ahead of the October 6 presidential election. Demonstrators gathered along Tunis’ main avenue, a historic focal point of the 2011 Arab Spring revolution, voicing concerns over...

Tunisia’s electoral authority on Monday definitively approved just two candidates to challenge President Kais Saied in elections next month in the struggling North African country — and one of them was promptly arrested. Businessman candidate Ayachi Zammel was taken into custody Monday in an...

Leading opposition parties in Tunisia asserted on July 17 that politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for holding democratic elections later this year. Members of the National Salvation Front, a coalition of secular and Islamist opponents to President Kais...