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Tunisia: End attacks on judicial independence

Since President Kais Saied’s institutional power grab of July 25, 2021, followed by his decree of September 22 of the same year, which implicitly repealed the constitutional order, and the adoption of a tailor-made Constitution a year later, the judicial system has been subjected to constant attacks aimed at crushing its independence and sweeping away […]

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Vietnam: Halt spurious criminal investigations against human rights lawyers Dang Dinh Manh and Nguyen Van Mieng

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has sent a letter to Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Ministry of Public Security (MPS) urging a halt to the continued harassment and criminal investigations of human rights lawyers Dang Dinh Manh and Nguyen Van Mieng for allegedly “abusing democratic freedoms” under article 331 of Vietnam’s Penal Code. […]

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In Tunisia Talks, EU Should Privilege Human Rights Over Politics

يمكنكم قراءة وتحميل البيان باللغة العربية عبر هذا الرابط At their forthcoming meeting on 20 March, EU foreign affairs ministers should publicly press the Tunisian authorities to reverse their crackdown against perceived critics, four human rights groups said today. (more…)

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