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Human Rights Watch Families of women and children with ties to suspected members of the Islamic State (ISIS) who were recently repatriated to Tunisia say that all of the women are in detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Some have faced abuse, have contracted Covid-19, and have been denied their rights. The Tunisian authorities should immediately ensure that all repatriated women are treated humanely, receive necessary medical treatment, and are granted their full due process rights while in detention. “While the authorities should assess these women individually and prosecute any who c...

14April 2021 The football stadium of Kef – a town in the north-western mountains of Tunisia – has been given more attention in the last few months than at any time in its history. Up until January 29, the public facility had been neglected for years – never repainted, maintained or used for official sports competitions. Then, a group of guys were caught smoking hash in a small space beneath the commentator stand. It became front-page national news when three of them were given a 30-year prison sentence. 20 of those years were specifically due to where the smoking took place – in this ...

April 13, 2021 On his first official visit to Egypt since he assumed power in 2019, Tunisian President Kais Saied arrived April 9 in Cairo on a three-day visit that comes amid a drastic change in regional and internal dynamics. At a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo April 10, Saied said that he agreed with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the importance of bilateral and regional relations. Rafaa Tabib, a professor of political anthropology at the University of Manouba, told Al-Monitor that as far as Egypt is concerned, the visit came amid the faltering Grand Ethi...

Tunisian activist Rania Amdouni dressed as a clown in an anti-government protest on January 23, 2021 (Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty) Human rights advocates are sounding alarm after a prominent Tunisian LGBT+ activist was jailed for pursuing a harassment complaint against the police. Rania Amdouni, 26, was arrested on 27 February and sentenced to six months in prison for shouting outside a police station after officers refused to register her harassment complaint, Human Rights Watch reported. According to her lawyer the complaint related to the repeated harassment she said police officers subjected ...

Failure to Address Complaint Against Police Rania Amdouni, 26, at the office of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, on October 27, 2020. © 2020 Hamza Nasri (Beirut) – A Tunisian court sentenced a prominent LGBT rights activist on March 4, 2021, to six months in prison and a fine for shouting outside a police station after officers refused to register her harassment complaint, Human Rights Watch said today. The activist, Rania Amdouni, 26, is in a women’s prison in Manouba, west of Tunis, where her lawyer said she has faced harassment by prison ...