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Tunisian authorities must immediately launch prompt, impartial, and independent investigations into the alarming spike in deaths in detention during the severe heatwaves of the summer and address life-threatening prison conditions across the country to ensure this does not occur again, Amnesty International said today.<\/p>\n
The Tunisian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LTDH) confirmed at least 23 deaths of prisoners between July and August 2026, as Tunisia experienced its hottest summer since…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Tunisian authorities must immediately launch prompt, impartial, and independent investigations into the alarming spike in deaths in detention during the severe heatwaves of the summer and address life-threatening prison conditions across the country to ensure this does not occur again, Amnesty International said today. The Tunisian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LTDH) confirmed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":250204,"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\/00520225:298f2e379a8acaf90b9ff8c5d1c4e3f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,7215,8601,7160,8116,257,7398,254,10716,4703,653,8907],"class_list":["post-250203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-deaths","tag-detainees","tag-investigate","tag-news","tag-prisons","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-urgently"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00520225:298f2e379a8acaf90b9ff8c5d1c4e3f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250203","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=250203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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