US EditionTunisian police arrest prominent opposition figure Chaima Issa during a protest to enforce a 20-year jail term
Authorities enforced a 20-year sentence against Chaima Issa following a mass trial sentencing dozens to up to 45 years amid a crackdown on dissent, rights groups said.
- On Saturday, Chaima Issa was arrested at a protest in Tunis to enforce a 20-year prison sentence following an appeals court ruling on Friday.
- An appeals court on Friday handed heavy sentences to opposition figures accused of plotting against President Kais Saied, with terms up to 45 years, while rights groups denounced the ruling as politically motivated.
- Moments before her arrest, Issa told Reuters 'They will arrest me shortly,' and lawyers say plainclothes officers seized her, first detained in February 2023 with about 20 others.
- More arrests are expected, with police widely expected to target Najib Chebbi, head of the National Salvation Front, as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemned the verdicts and called for annulment.
- Since July 2021, Saied has suspended parliament and consolidated executive power, and rights groups say prosecutions jail critics, silence journalists and suspend NGOs, eroding Tunisia's post‑2011 democratic gains.
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At the appeal of feminists, civil society and opposition political parties protested Saturday, 29 November in Tunis against the repression of President Kais Saïed's regime. The day before, the so-called appeal trial of the plot against state security ended on sometimes very heavy convictions, including that of the writer and opponent Chayma Issa, arrested during the demonstration.
This prominent activist was arrested on Saturday 29 November during a demonstration in Tunis to denounce violations of freedom of expression.
The prominent Tunisian activist and writer Chaima Issa has been arrested in Tunisia - especially during a demonstration for freedom rights.
In Tunisia, the government critic Chaima Issa has been arrested.
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