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Tunisie : Journée de solidarité avec la population et des prisonniers du bassin minier de Gafsa - Communiqué

Depuis le début de la révolte du bassin minier de Gafsa, les femmes y tiennent un rôle de première importance. Elles ont été à l’origine des principales grandes manifestations de masse suite aux premières arrestations. Elles ont conduit des initiatives de résistance de plusieurs formes [...]

Tunisia: Behind Tunisia’s ‘Economic Miracle’: Inequality and criminalization of protest

Tunisia’s ‘economic miracle’ has not benefited all, nor has it been matched by greater enjoyment of human rights. This was vividly illustrated during unrest in the south-west region of gafsa in 2008, when peaceful protests by workers and unemployed youths were met with excessive use of force by security forces, arbitrary arrest, torture or other [...]

Tunisian trade union leader on trial for role in protests

4 December 2008. A trade union leader and 37 others face trial in Tunisia on Thursday, accused of fomenting unrest during protests earlier this year in the Gafsa region. Adnan Hajji, Secretary General of local office of the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) in Redeyef, and his co-accused face charges including “forming a criminal [...]

Tunisia: torturing detainees

In spite of this, Tunisia is not widely perceived as a country in which serious human rights violations are committed. Indeed, during a state visit to the country in April 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised the Tunisian government’s efforts in fighting terrorism and declared that “the sphere of liberties” in the country was improving.

Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights?

(Brussels, 11 July) The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) initiative, to be endorsed on 13 July, may lead to a serious breach of the EU’s commitments to raise human rights concerns in all bilateral relations, says Amnesty International.
The fact that there is no reference to human rights in the current proposal effectively means that increased [...]

Tunisia: Abuses continue despite official denial

A former prisoner and alleged torture victim whose case was cited in Amnesty International’s recent report on human rights abuses in Tunisia, and two Tunisian lawyers who shared their experience as defence lawyers at a Paris press conference organized by Amnesty International to launch this report, have since been subjected to what appears to be [...]

Tunisie. Des proclamations de pure forme en faveur des droits humains

Le gouvernement tunisien cherche à tromper le reste du monde en présentant une image positive de la situation des droits humains dans le pays tandis que ses forces de sécurité persistent à commettre des exactions qui restent impunies, a révélé Amnesty International dans un nouveau rapport publié ce lundi 23 juin.

Tunisie : Un Suisse d’Amnesty raconte l’active répression