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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Metz

A new report says Tunisia has dramatically expanded the use of politically motivated arrests

Tunisia Detainees - (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Tunisia has dramatically expanded the use of politically motivated arrests and prosecutions to intimidate and silence critics, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday.

In what the group describes as a sweeping rollback of freedoms won during Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, authorities in recent years have targeted lawyers, judges, journalists and activists in a crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied.

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