Tunisia: Conviction and sentence of Anas Hmedi, President of the Association of Tunisian Magistrates, must be quashed
Ahead of the Tunis Court of Appeal’s decision tomorrow in Judge Hmedi’s appeal against his guilty verdict for “obstructing the freedom to work” and attendant one-year prison sentence, the ICJ again calls for his unjust and wrongful conviction and sentence – in...
EU: Further efforts needed for child-friendly justice in criminal proceedings
Children suspected or accused of an offence in the European Union (EU) are entitled to specific procedural safeguards: the right to information, the right to be assisted by a lawyer, the right to an individual assessment, and safeguards on any deprivation of liberty....
Three Years After the EU-Tunisia Deal, Review EU Approach Toward Tunisia’s Human Rights Decline
Dear President von der Leyen, We are writing to you three years after the signing of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 16 July 2023, to encourage you to show principled leadership and initiate a reset of an EU approach that has failed to uphold human...
EU: Civil society´s demands for a stronger Rule of law report
The ICJ and 36 civil society, human rights, journalism and media support organisations urgently call on the European Commission to take more direct and verifiable measures to uphold, protect and restore the rule of law within the European Union and in the candidate countries.
Tunisia: End sham prosecution of Truth Commission’s former president Sihem Bensedrine
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) calls on the Tunisian authorities to drop all charges and dismiss the sham criminal cases against Sihem Bensedrine, who faces trial tomorrow on trumped-up “fraud”, “bribery” and “abuse of official capacity” charges in...Recent News
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