{"id":236164,"date":"2026-06-13T04:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-human-rights-watch-briefing-paper-on-the-human-rights-situation-in-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:57:35","slug":"tunisia-human-rights-watch-briefing-paper-on-the-human-rights-situation-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-human-rights-watch-briefing-paper-on-the-human-rights-situation-in-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper On the Human Rights Situation in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>Update on human rights in Tunisia and the need for international scrutiny<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Five years after President Kais Saied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/07\/27\/tunisia-presidents-seizure-powers-threatens-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seized extraordinary executive powers<\/a> on July 25, 2021, Tunisia&#8217;s human rights situation has deteriorated dramatically. What began as a slide back into authoritarianism has hardened into systematic repression of civil society organizations, journalists, political opponents, independent lawyers, and migrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>Shrinking Civic Space and Crackdown on Civil Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606100039.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>Update on human rights in Tunisia and the need for international scrutiny Five years after President Kais Saied seized extraordinary executive powers on July 25, 2021, Tunisia&#8217;s human rights situation has deteriorated dramatically. What began as a slide back into authoritarianism has hardened into systematic repression of civil society organizations, journalists, political opponents, independent lawyers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236165,"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\/00610851:970ee6d2cf4645be66d860f139e6c7c5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6453,3575,257,11889,5100,6325,254,4703,653,10745],"class_list":["post-236164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-briefing","tag-human","tag-news","tag-paper","tag-rights","tag-situation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610851:970ee6d2cf4645be66d860f139e6c7c5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236164","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=236164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}