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Tunisia’s independent electoral body, ISIE, announced Sunday the second round of the parliamentary elections will take place on January 29, amid growing calls for cancellation of the electoral process. head of the body Farouk Bouasker, who announced the date, said the campaign for the second round will commence on January 16. The process will take […]
The Criminal Chamber within the court of first instance in Tunis has sentenced nine women to several years in prison for forming a terror cell that was plotting to attack a minister in the North African country. Two members of this group of ten people including the cell alleged founder, were sentenced to 25 years […]
Tunisian authorities have issued an international arrest warrant against former Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, reports say citing lawyer Wafa Chedly. Chedly made the announcement on Facebook without further elaborating. The regime of President Kais Saied has not made any comment on the alleged arrest warrant. Mechichi, 49, was fired in July 2021 by […]
A court in Tunisia has condemned former Environment minister Mustapha Aroui to three years in prison for involvement in the illegal import of household waste from Italy in 2020. The ruling was issued by Tunis Court of Instance. Aroui has been in prison since December 2020, only six months into the job. The case raised […]
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has extended from January 1st for one month the state of emergency in place since 2015 after a series of terror attacks hit the country killing dozens of people, mostly foreign tourists. The measure gives the state sweeping power to take action against anyone suspected for terrorism and break any gathering […]
The criminal division specialized in the fight against terrorism of a Tunisia count condemned a citizen to 10 years in prison for calling President Kais Saied “Putschist” in a social media post, Business News reports. The defendant, whose name was not revealed, was arrested in August this year, the media adds citing his defense team. […]
Tunisian and foreign rights watchdogs warn that President Kais Saied’s actions threaten press freedom and the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings. In this connection, Tunisian journalists protested on Thursday against what they say is growing repression and intimidation against the press since President Kais Saied’s power grab in July last year. […]
A court in Tunisia has pressed multiple-year prison sentences against four people including a Muslim cleric known as the figurehead of terror cell, on terrorism charges, Webdo Tunis reports. The court ruling came from Tunis Court of First Instance. The prison sentences range from 1 year to 21. The imam of Douar Hicher, a town […]
Tunisia’s anti-terrorism judge decided to imprison Ali Laarayedh, a former Prime minister and senior official in the Islamist opposition Ennahda party, after hours of investigation into suspicions of sending Tunisian jihadists to Syria, the defense of the ex-Premier has told media. “The investigative judge issued a prison decision against former Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh in […]
The Tunisian people has made its voice heard by shunning a parliamentary elections in a message to President Kais Saied to step down and end one-man rule in Tunisia. Under president Saied, Tunisia has lost its status as a post-Arab spring democracy as it backpedals to autocracy with the president concentrating all powers in his […]