Tunisia

Civil liberties are severely restricted in Tunisia. Human rights defenders and political opponents are regularly arrested, subjected to unfair trials and imprisoned. Over 2,000 political prisoners fill the Tunisian prisons, where they are subjected to misstreatment and torture. Freedom of expression is greatly curtailed and the authorities censor stories and newspapers they don't like.

Actions | NGOs | Reports | UN | News | Government & Law | Links

Actions

• Actions from the World Organization Against Torture on Tunisia

NGOs

• Comité pour le Respect des Libertés et des Droits de l'Homme en Tunisie
• Conseil National Pour Les Libertés en Tunisie
• International Committee of Solidarity for Political Prisoners in Tunisia
• The Tunisian League for the Defence of Human Rights
• Arab Commission for Human Rights
• Hijra International
• HR Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa

Reports & Articles

• US State Department Human Rights Reports
  2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996
• US State Department Reports on Freedom of Religion in Tunisia
  2001 - 2000 - 1999
• Amnesty International Reports
• Human Rights Watch Reports
• Human Rights Violations in Tunisia - Hijra
• Arab Program for Human Rights Activists Under Siege
  Tunisia 1987-1999
  ACHR
• ACIJLP Reports & News:
  • ACIJLP calls for the immediate release of Lawyer Naguib Husny
    16 Jan 2001

UN

• On the Record: UN Human Rights Activities
  2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997
  
  
• Documents from the UN Human Rights System on Tunisia
  Treaty Body Documents | Charter Body Documents
  
  

News
The press in Tunisia is strictly controlled, journalists practice self-censorship and
newspapers carrying news offensive to the government are censored.

• Press Releases from the Arab Commission on Human Rights
• Africa News Online: Tunisia
• News on Tunisia - Washington Post
• Tunisia National Dailies
• Tunisia News Online

Government & Law

• Constitution
• Tunisian Government Website

Links

• Information from the Arab Human Rights Netcenter
• CIA World Factbook: Algeria
• Free Tunisia
• Tunisia Links - MENIC
• Tunisia Online
• Human Rights in Tunisia
  Government apologia about its human rights record
• Human Rights Links

Español

• Acciones de la Organización Mundial Contra la Tortura
• Informes de Amnistía Internacional

Human Rights in the Middle East