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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Western Donors Decry Tunisia’s Abolition of Judicial Council

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.

Tunisia's main Western donors voiced "deep concern" on Tuesday at the president's move to dissolve a body tasked with ensuring judicial independence after he seized wide powers last year in a move critics call a coup.

President Kais Saied announced his declaration to abolish the Supreme Judicial Council on Sunday, a move the body rejected as illegal and an attempt to undermine judges' independence.

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