The Latest Breaking News from Kais Saied

A Tunisian court handed jail terms ranging from 13 to 66 years to 40 opposition leaders, businessmen and lawyers on charges of conspiring against state security, Tunisia's state news agency TAP reported on Saturday.

Tunisian media say a court has sentenced leading opposition figures to between 13 and 66 years in prison

The non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released a new report on Tunisia, denouncing the government's use of arbitrary detention as “a cornerstone of its repressive policy” and claiming it is designed to strip individuals of their civil and political rights.

The trial of dozens of Tunisian opposition figures resumed on Tuesday under tight security, with six detained defendants on hunger strike after they were barred from attending court in person.

Trial of more than 40 people charged with plotting against the state, including prominent politicians, resumes Friday.

Authorities suggested more than 20,000 people were sheltering in the camps, which are near a part of the coastline located less than 161 kilometres from the Italian islands that form the European Union's outermost borders.

Ben Mbarek, along with about 40 other critics of the president, is being tried on state conspiracy charges.

Kamel Maddouri’s dismissal comes amid economic and political crises under President Kais Saied, who rules by decree.

Human rights groups denounce trials as further evidence of a crackdown on opposition by President Kais Saied.