US EditionTunisian court suspends prominent human rights groups as crackdown progresses
Authorities suspended activities of leading Tunisian civil society groups citing regulation violations amid broader crackdown on independent civic voices since 2021.
- Prosecutors launched an investigation into foreign funding of civil society organisations, and Business News reported 47 associations dissolved with assets of 36 others frozen.
- A Tunisian court ordered the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights to suspend activities for one month, citing a financial audit related to foreign funding, while FTDES said it will appeal.
- Activists and rights campaigners denounced the suspension, with FTDES and critics saying it aims to criminalise independent civic action, and Sana Ben Achour condemned the move.
- Since President Kais Saied seized power, Tunisian and foreign NGOs warn of rights regression as authorities use audits, account freezes, and imprison at least 12 prominent civil society activists.
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Tunisian court suspends prominent human rights groups as crackdown progresses
Tunisian courts have ordered some of the country’s most prominent human rights organizations to halt activities, deepening concerns about the erosion of freedoms and shrinking space for groups that challenge those in power.
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The Frontier PostTunisia imposes one-month suspension on migrant-rights group
TUNIS - Tunisia has ordered the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), a prominent civil rights and migrant advocacy organization, to suspend activities for a month, the group said on Monday, one of several associations under such orders. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Tunisia suspends ATFD women’s rights group
The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women rights group said authorities had suspended its activities, in a move denounced by fellow activists. Founded in 1989, the ATFD has been at the forefront of the struggle for democracy in Tunisia and against the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was overthrown in 2011 by a popular uprising. The head of the ATFD, Raja Dahmani, told AFP on Friday that she received a "decision from the authoriti…
The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD), emblematic of the pro-democracy struggle in the country, has already announced a legal appeal against this decision of the authorities. And strong reactions from other organizations and personalities of civil society are rising.
Tunisia’s migrant rights under siege as civic space shrinks – The North Africa Post
Tunisia’s suspension of the country’s leading migrant rights group has sent shockwaves through civil society, deepening fears about the country’s slide into authoritarianism while migrants bear the brunt of the crackdown. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), long a lifeline for migrants and refugees, was ordered to halt operations for a month […]
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