Tunisia: Tunisia Accused of Shutting Down Civil Society Through Sweeping Crackdown

[RFI] Tunisian authorities have intensified pressure on civil society through arrests, prosecutions, financial investigations and mass suspensions, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday - warning that the independent civic space created after the 2011 revolution has been all but shut down.

Five years into Tunisian President Kais Saied’s increasingly authoritarian rule, rights groups warn that the country’s once vibrant civil society is being silenced.

Arrests, prosecutions and suspensions are putting growing pressure on Tunisia’s civil society, Human Rights Watch says.