Summary In 2016 Tunisia’s parliament adopted the landmark law on the right of those taken into police custody to see a lawyer.  As a result, detainees today are better protected against ill-treatment and forced confessions…

Summary For almost a quarter of a century, Tunisia’s drug laws have mandated long prison sentences for drug offenses resulting in large numbers of low-level offenders in Tunisian prisons. Long prison sentences are cruel,…

Flawed Accountability Shortcomings of Tunisia’s Trials for Killings during the Uprising Summary Jurisdiction of Military Courts Weak Evidence Gathering Flaws in…

Cracks in the System Conditions of Pre-charge Detainees in Tunisia Summary Legal and Policy Framework Material Conditions Insufficient Safeguards…

A Revolution for All Women’s Rights in the New Libya Summary I. Background II. Women’s Political Participation The Right to Participate Election …

Introduction Now that Tunisia’s interim governing institutions have adopted laws to oversee the election of a constituent assembly, scheduled for October 23, 2011, they…

The Price of Independence Silencing Labor and Student Unions in Tunisia Glossary of Acronyms Summary Recommendations Methodology I. Labor Unions Denial of the Right to Form Unions…

Repression of Former Political Prisoners in Tunisia "A Larger Prison" Summary Recommendations Methodology Introduction Findings Administrative Control Harassed, Intimidated, and Detained…

Ill-Fated Homecomings A Tunisian Case Study of Guantanamo Repatriations I. Summary II. Returns to Tunisia Abdullah al-Hajji Ben Amor Lotfi Lagha.. III. Other…

False Freedom Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa About this Report Summary Regional Overview.. Recommendations Note on Methodology Legal Standards Pertaining to Online Freedom of Expression Right to Freedom of Expression and Exchange…

I. Summary Interviews with three recently released prisoners provide new details of the cruel and inhumane policy of isolation practiced by Tunisian authorities. These interviews, with men who had served up to eleven years in solitary confinement…

Summary Tunisia's policy of placing some of its more than 500 political prisoners in strict, long-term solitary confinement is one of the harshest holdovers from the prison regime of the 1990s, when conditions were worse overall.It…

An impending appeals court ruling in Tunisia threatens to undermine the Arab world's oldest independent human rights organization, according to a report released today by Human Rights Watch and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders…

At the end of August, Tunisian military courts pronounced verdicts against 279 Islamists in the most closely watched trials to take place since 1987, when many of the same persons had been put on trial. The 1992 trials were seen as a test of the…