Tunisian judge orders detention of prominent lawyer Ahmed Souab | News
Souab is a fierce critic of President Kais Saied and was arrested for comments about the judiciary acting under duress.A Tunisian judge has ordered the…
Tunisian court hands opposition figures lengthy jail terms | Human Rights News
Dozens of defendants found guilty of “conspiracy against state security” and given sentences of 13 to 66 years.Dozens of opposition figures in Tunisia have been…
Allies say Ghannouchi ‘unjustly’ held, as he marks 2 years in Tunisian jail | Human Rights News
International Committee for Solidarity with Rached Ghannouchi decries ‘repressive campaign’ against Ennahdha party leader.Marking the second anniversary of the arrest of Tunisia’s prominent opposition leader Rached…
‘Conspiracy trial’ restarts: What’s Tunisia’s history with death penalty? | Human Rights News
A mass trial is set to resume in Tunisia of more than 40 people accused of various conspiracies against the Tunisian state and its president,…
Tunisia mass trial highlights opposition crackdown, weakening of judiciary | Human Rights News
For detractors of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, the trial of more than 40 opposition figures is quite clearly a further nail in the coffin of…
Jailed Tunisian opposition figure Jaouhar Ben Mbarek goes on hunger strike | Human Rights News
Ben Mbarek, along with about 40 other critics of the president, is being tried on state conspiracy charges.A jailed Tunisian opposition activist facing state conspiracy…
Tunisia’s president sacks third prime minister in less than two years | Politics News
Kamel Maddouri’s dismissal comes amid economic and political crises under President Kais Saied, who rules by decree.Tunisian President Kais Saied has fired Prime Minister Kamel…
‘A mockery’: Mass trial begins in Tunisia of political opponents | Human Rights News
The collective trial of around 40 opposition figures has gotten under way in Tunis, with rights groups claiming the crackdown on voices critical of Tunisian…
Tunisia’s Ennahdha party slams lengthy jail term for its leader Ghannouchi | News
Tunisia’s opposition Ennahdha party has slammed a court sentencing its leader Rached Ghannouchi to an additional 22 years in prison, saying the charges were “a…
Teary Ons Jabeur struggles with asthma flare-up at Australian Open | Tennis News
Asthma attack leaves the Tunisian tennis player in tears as she battles her way through her second-round match.Ons Jabeur was in tears after experiencing breathing…
US transfers 11 Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman | Human Rights News
Amnesty International welcomed the transfer but said Guantanamo would remain a ‘glaring, longstanding stain’ on human rights in the US.The United States has transferred 11…
At least 27 people killed, dozens rescued after two shipwrecks off Tunisia | Migration News
All the victims and those rescued were from sub-Saharan African countries, says director of civil protection in Sfax.At least 27 people including women and children…
Pentagon repatriates Guantanamo Bay detainee to Tunisia
The view toward the exit gate in the abandoned Camp X-Ray at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on July 23, 2015. A Guantanamo Bay detainee…
Video: Longest-held Guantanamo Bay detainee repatriated to Tunisia | Prison
NewsFeedThe US military has released Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi from the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The Tunisian detainee was never charged with a crime…
US military releases long-held Guantanamo detainee to Tunisia | Human Rights News
Transfer of Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi from the US army prison in Cuba is the fourth in two weeks by the outgoing Biden administration.The Pentagon…
At least nine people die, six missing as boat sinks off Tunisia | Migration News
Coastguard rescues 27 people on the boat when it broke down and took on water due to bad weather.Tunisia’s coastguard has recovered the bodies of…
Bodies of 16 migrants recovered off Tunisia’s eastern coast | Migration News
Samples have been taken to identify the bodies of the migrants and refugees ‘due to the extent of decomposition’.The bodies of 16 migrants and refugees…
Tunisia’s Saied wins presidential election, electoral commission says | Elections News
Saied takes 90.7 percent of the vote on 28.8 percent turnout, commission says.Tunisian President Kais Saied has won a second term in the presidential election,…
Saied’s low turnout win in Tunisia election sparks repression concerns | Elections News
Tunisians are reckoning with what preliminary results suggest will be a landslide victory for incumbent Kais Saied in the presidential election despite a markedly low…
Kais Saied set to win Tunisia presidential election: Exits poll | Elections News
The incumbent in the lead with 89.2 percent of votes as voter turnout was 28 percent in Sunday’s election.Tunisian President Kais Saied is on course…