Sounding the Alarm over Tunisia’s Crackdown

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image People rally calling for the release of political detainees and greater freedom of expression in Tunis, Tunisia, on December 6, 2025. © 2025 Yassine Gaidi/Sipa via AP Photo At the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which closed on July 8, UN experts and civil society expressed deep concern about Tunisia’s intensifying human rights crises. But the continued silence from UN member states all but signalled a free pass for Tunisian authorities to continue escalating their crackdown on civic space.Five years after Tunisian President Kais Saied seized…

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