{"id":181789,"date":"2024-10-03T23:56:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-authorities-undermine-election-integrity\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T23:56:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:56:43","slug":"tunisia-authorities-undermine-election-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-authorities-undermine-election-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Authorities Undermine Election Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Beirut \u2014 <em>Last Minute Electoral Law Changes, Mass Arrests <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/north-africa\/tunisia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tunisian<\/a> authorities have undermined the integrity of the October 6, 2024 presidential election by amending the electoral law just days beforehand, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities excluded or arrested opposition candidates, and took arbitrary measures against political opponents, independent media, and civil society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"79\">On September 27, Tunisia&#8217;s Assembly of the Representatives of the People passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/tunisia-assembly-votes-electoral-bill-nine-days-before-poll-opposition-calls-2024-09-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new law<\/a> that stripped the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410030511.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut \u2014 Last Minute Electoral Law Changes, Mass Arrests Tunisian authorities have undermined the integrity of the October 6, 2024 presidential election by amending the electoral law just days beforehand, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities excluded or arrested opposition candidates, and took arbitrary measures against political opponents, independent media, and civil society. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":181790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00190045:73afec91789ee9cac2eac929485e69eb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,7215,3119,8339,257,254,4703,653,9829],"class_list":["post-181789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-election","tag-integrity","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-undermine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00190045:73afec91789ee9cac2eac929485e69eb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}