Tunisia: It Is Essential to End Attacks On Judicial Independence

Since President Kais Saied’s institutional power grab of July 25, 2021, followed by his decree of September 22 of the same year, which implicitly repealed the constitutional order, and the adoption of a tailor-made Constitution a year later, the judicial system has been subjected to constant attacks aimed at crushing its independence and sweeping away the right to a fair trial.

Through Decree Law no. 2022-11 of February 12, 2022, the President of the Republic dissolved the elected High Judicial…