In the years since Tunisia's 2011 revolution opened a fragile window of civic possibility, the state has moved steadily to close it again — arresting NGO workers, freezing accounts, and suspending associations in a campaign that Human Rights Watch now documents with sobering precision. What is unfolding in Tunis is not merely a legal dispute over organizational compliance, but a deliberate narrowing of the space in which citizens may speak, organize, and hold power to account. The pattern — counterterrorism laws turned against humanitarians, courts subordinated to executive will, journalists h
Tunisia's Civil Society Under Siege as Authorities Intensify Crackdown
At least 47 NGO workers prosecuted, 10+ held in preventive detention exceeding legal limits, 14 convicted and imprisoned; activists report self-censorship and fear of prosecution affecting civic participation.