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“Against the social crisis and the employer's arbitrariness, localized strikes are being organized.”

UN Experts Should Investigate Protesters gather in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia on February 6, 2021. © 2021 Karim Saadi (Beirut) – Tunisian security forces have repeatedly targeted protesters, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) activists at protests, Human Rights Watch said today. The targeting involved arbitrary arrests, physical assaults, threats to rape and kill, and refusing access to legal counsel. Human Righ...

Student union at heart of protests rocking Tunisia Warda Atiq, the secretary-general of LUnion générale des étudiants de Tunisie (UGET), told University World News that 50 members of UGET have been arrested and 32 remain in pre-trial detention. The first arrest was of Kais Schneiter, UGET’s representative in the southern region of Medenine, in mid-January, as protests sparked by alleged police brutality, economic woes and COVID-19 lockdowns gathered steam. UGET activist Ghafran Sfar told...

1 Dead, Arrests for Facebook Posts and ‘Insulting Police’ A protester holds up a sign saying “Police Everywhere, Justice Nowhere” during nation-wide protests calling for social justice and government reform on January 23, 2021, Avenue Habib Bourguiba, Tunis, Tunisia. © 2021 Ahmed Zarrouki (Tunis) – Police in several Tunisian governorates appear to have responded to social justice protests in recent weeks with excessive force at times, leaving one man...

Tunisia’s protests and the slippery slope to censorship and repression 4 February 2021 | 4:32 am This year did not start on a good note for Tunisia. On the tenth anniversary of Tunisia’s revolution, January 14, hundreds of young Tunisians in different parts of the country, particularly marginalized and impoverished areas, took to the streets in protest against poverty and social and economic inequality, as well as police brutality. The government responded to Tunisia’s protests...