The Tunisian government carried out a wide range of repressive measures against journalists and human rights defenders during 2009, an election year, with no improvement in basic freedoms.

Tunisian authorities should quash the convictions on the journalists Taoufik Ben Brik and Zouhair Makhlouf after unfair trials and immediately set them free.

Nous nous permettons de vous écrire pour exprimer l’inquiétude profonde de Human Rights Watch concernant la menace d’expulsion qui pèse sur M. Yassine Ferchichi, ressortissant tunisien actuellement incarcéré à la prison de Fresnes.

Repressive acts and tight controls on the election process have tainted the prospects for free and fair presidential and legislative elections in Tunisia on October 25, 2009.

The Tunisian government should end the harassment of the human rights activist and journalist Abdallah Zouari immediately.

Back in 2006, Israel's profligate use of cluster munitions in Lebanon caught the public eye, nowhere more so than in the Arab world.

Italy’s expulsion of a Tunisian terrorism suspect to a country where he is at real risk of torture is the latest example of how it flouts the absolute ban on such returns. Italy returned Ali Ben Sassi Toumi to Tunisia on August 2, 2009, despite repeated rulings from the European Court of Human Rights to suspend the planned expulsion until the court fully investigates the claim that he would face torture or other mistreatment upon his return.

Tunisian authorities should end the arbitrary banishment to a remote village of the political activist and journalist Abdallah Zouari.