{"id":196293,"date":"2025-04-18T04:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-human-rights-watch-slams-tunisias-repressive-use-of-arbitrary-detention\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T04:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:54:37","slug":"tunisia-human-rights-watch-slams-tunisias-repressive-use-of-arbitrary-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-human-rights-watch-slams-tunisias-repressive-use-of-arbitrary-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Human Rights Watch Slams Tunisia&#8217;s &#8216;Repressive&#8217; Use of Arbitrary Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\"><em> The non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just published a new report on Tunisia, condemning the government&#8217;s use of arbitrary detention as &#8220;a cornerstone of its repressive policy&#8221;, and asserting that it is intended to deprive individuals of their civil and political rights. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The NGO says that its research suggests that, since President Kais Saied&#8217;s takeover of Tunisia&#8217;s state institutions on 25 July 2021, the authorities have dramatically intensified their repression of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504170045.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>The non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just published a new report on Tunisia, condemning the government&#8217;s use of arbitrary detention as &#8220;a cornerstone of its repressive policy&#8221;, and asserting that it is intended to deprive individuals of their civil and political rights. The NGO says that its research suggests that, since President Kais [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660151:543629e7dbfbad0633d5a817ce798f4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,13768,6978,3575,257,21035,5100,9757,254,4703,653,6684,10745],"class_list":["post-196293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arbitrary","tag-detention","tag-human","tag-news","tag-repressive","tag-rights","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660151:543629e7dbfbad0633d5a817ce798f4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196293","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=196293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}