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A court in the Tunisian city of Sfax has pressed a five-month suspended sentence on a Tunisian woman convicted for abusing a teacher of black skin. This appears as the first court condemnation of a racism case in Tunisia, The National comments. The woman, not identified, reportedly went to the school after her daughter told […]
Tunisia’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a law criminalizing racist speech, incitement to hatred and discrimination. The legislation was approved, after a lengthy debate, with 125 members of parliament voting for it, one against and five abstaining. The law was a response to the assault of an Ivorian on a Tunis street in July that triggered […]