In Tunisia, the arrest of investigative journalist Mohamed Yousfi marks another moment in a long reckoning between power and the press — a reckoning that has, under President Kais Saied, grown steadily less equal. Yousfi's detention follows a series of sentences handed down to journalists and activists, arriving just as the country's highest court affirmed convictions against forty opposition figures in a mass trial. What unfolds in Tunisia today is a familiar story in human history: the slow, procedural silencing of those who ask questions that authority would prefer go unasked.
Tunisia arrests journalist Yousfi in escalating crackdown on critics
Multiple journalists imprisoned or sentenced; opposition leaders, lawyers, and human rights defenders convicted and imprisoned under mass trial.