Tunisia: Prominent Tunisian Activist Arrested As Hundreds Protest Clampdown On Dissent

Lawyers for Chaima Issa, a well-known Tunisian writer and human rights activist, say she was arrested at a protest in Tunis on Saturday as hundreds demonstrated against the curtailing of freedoms.

Issa is among some 40 people, mainly critics of President Kais Saied, who received lengthy prison terms on charges of plotting against the state at a mass appeal trial on Friday.

“We were marching in the protest when a group of plainclothes officers grabbed her and pushed her inside a vehicle,” Issa’s…