Mohamed Yassine Jelassi remembers his prison days under Tunisia's pre-revolution dictatorship, but mostly the heady ones a few years later as a journalist covering the country's 2011 revolt that kicked it out. "It was a dream to live it," says Jelassi, president of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists, or SNJT, apologizing for choking…
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July 2022 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
ARTICLE 19 is extremely concerned that the democratic system in Tunisia built from the 2011 Revolution and reflected in the 2014 Constitution, is at grave risk. The measures taken on 25 July 2021 by the President of the Republic, Kais Saied, including the announcement of a state of emergency and the dissolution of parliament, concentrate in one single person the executive and legislative branches, as well as parts of the judiciary, with no checks and balances. The measures place Tunisia in a grave situation, effectively suspending the democratic system with no guarantees for its reinstatement