"International NGOs Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have decried a sharp decline in civil liberties and a pervading injustice in Tunisia since President Kais Saied came to power in 2019, as authorities escalate their crackdown on the opposition, activists and foreign nongovernmental organisations. Tunisian authorities have increasingly escalated their crackdown on human rights defenders and independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) through arbitrary arrests, detention, asset freezes,"
"bank restrictions and court-ordered suspensions, all under the pretext of fighting suspicious' foreign funding and shielding national interests', Amnesty International said in a statement on Friday. Tunisia's crackdown on civil society has reached an unprecedented level, according to Amnesty, as six NGO workers and human rights defenders from"
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International report a sharp decline in civil liberties and pervasive injustice in Tunisia since President Kais Saied took power in 2019. Authorities have escalated a crackdown on opposition figures, activists, human-rights defenders and foreign nongovernmental organisations. Measures include arbitrary arrests, detention, asset freezes, bank restrictions and court-ordered suspensions under the pretext of combating suspicious foreign funding and shielding national interests. Amnesty reports at least 14 Tunisian and international NGOs temporarily suspended and criminal prosecution of six Tunisian Council for Refugees workers for work supporting refugees and asylum seekers. A July 2021 power grab dissolved parliament, expanded executive power and was later enshrined in a widely boycotted 2022 constitution, while a 2022 fake news law has been used to prosecute media figures and lawyers.
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