Tunisia: Sounding the Alarm Over Tunisia’s Crackdown

UN Experts, Civil Society Highlight Deepening Repression

At the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which closed on July 8, UN experts and civil society expressed deep concern about Tunisia’s intensifying human rights crises. But the continued silence from UN member states all but signalled a free pass for Tunisian authorities to continue escalating their crackdown on civic space.

Five years after Tunisian President Kais Saied seized extraordinary executive powers, the…