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Tunisia’s transitional justice at the mercy of politics 23 November 2020By Olfa Belhassine, our correspondent in Tunis Three parties and a president have produced bills aimed at national reconciliation, often driven by the desire to interrupt or even reverse the transitional justice process. They mark a failure on the part of politicians, and show how transitional justice in Tunisia is again subject to the vagaries of political calculations. Share Republish × You are free to republish this...

Gilbert Naccache, a Crystal memory 5 January 2021By Olfa Belhassine, our correspondent in Tunis Jewish political dissident Gilbert Naccache long suffered repression and anti-Semitic attacks from the authorities and his fellow Tunisians. This left-wing activist, a former political prisoner and considered by some to be "a monument of Tunisian resistance", passed away on December 26. He died without having seen the outcome of the trial involving him, due to the slowness of transitional justice in...