US EditionTunisia suspends Nobel Peace Prize-winning LTDH rights group
The league said the order is part of a wider crackdown on civil society and free voices, as courts and police target critics.
- Tunisian authorities ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights , a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization and cornerstone of civil society advocacy.
- The league condemned the suspension as part of a "wider pattern of increasingly systematic curbs on civil society," warning that Tunisia risks sliding into authoritarian rule under President Kais Saied.
- In recent months, authorities barred the LTDH from inspecting prison conditions in several cities, following October suspensions of the Democratic Women and the Economic and Social Rights Forum.
- President Saied denies seeking to be a dictator and asserts that freedoms are guaranteed in Tunisia, though critics argue journalism and political opposition face increasing criminalization through arbitrary prosecutions.
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Tunisia’s main rights group says operations suspended
The Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize winner along with three other groups, has had its operations suspended for a month, its president said Saturday. The LTDH said in a statement overnight it had been "informed" of the suspension, calling the measure "dangerous and arbitrary", but said the ban was pending official confirmation. LTDH head Bassem Trifi told AFP news agency the order had been "issued by the Tunis …
The Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, was suspended by the Tunisian justice for a period of one month, announced Saturday its President Bassem
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Temple Daily TelegramTunisia suspends one of Africa’s oldest rights groups as crackdown widens
Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights. It is one of the oldest rights groups in Africa and the Arab world and part of the National Dialogue Quartet awarded the 2015 Nobel…
Tunisia suspends Nobel Peace Prize-winning LTDH rights group
Tunisian authorities on Friday ordered a one-month suspension of activities by the Human Rights League (LTDH), according to a statement from the group, which was among the civil society quartet that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.
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Tunisia suspends one of Africa’s oldest rights group as crackdown widens
Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights. It is one of the oldest rights groups in Africa and the Arab world and part of the National Dialogue Quartet awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.
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