CIVICUS discusses growing authoritarianism in Tunisia with a representative of the Africa Independent Commission of Human Rights.
On 22 November, Tunisians took to the streets to protest against President Kais Saied’s increasingly autocratic rule. Since Saied suspended parliament and rewrote the constitution to concentrate power in his hands in 2021, dozens of activists, journalists, lawyers and opposition figures have been detained. Civil society continues to demand the release of political prisoners, restoration of civil and political freedoms and an end to criminalisation of dissent.
