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Tunisia: HRW decries intensified crackdown on political opposition & civil society

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Human Rights Watch has denounced in its 2025 report the escalating repression of critical voices in Tunisia of Kais Saied, saying the authorities undermined the integrity of the October presidential election and carried out politically motivated arrests & arbitrary detentions of prospective challengers before the vote. “It is clear that Tunisian authorities deployed all their […]
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Algeria cracks down on opposition figures in exile after quelling dissent at home

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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHRS) joined a long list of rights watchdogs that alert to the growing repression of the Algerian regime against peaceful dissidents abroad after a brutal crackdown on criticism at home. In a report dubbed “The Noose is Tightening Around Us: Algeria’s Use of Transnational Repression to Crackdown on Dissent”, […]
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Tunisia’s Kais Saied intensifies crackdown on opposition, arrests Ennahda leader

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Tunisia under Kais Saied is backpedaling to autocracy as the president continues his crackdown on the opposition, arresting leader of Ennahda opposition party Rached Ghannouchi. Tunisian authorities also raided the headquarters of the party as part of power-consolidation by a president that disbanded the parliament and tailored a new constitution fostering his power grab, while […]