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United Nations Human Rights Council 59th Regular Session Agenda Item 3 Oral statement of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers ...
The Price of Complicity: Tunisia-EU Partnership Agreement Fuels Serious Abuses Against Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and Migrants
Today, on International Migrants Day, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a briefing paper calling on the Tunisian authorities to immediately halt all collective expulsions and inhuman treatment of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. The ICJ...
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institutional power grab of July 25, 2021, followed by his decree of September 22 of the same year, which implicitly repealed the constitutional order, and the adoption of a tailor-made Constitution a year later, the judicial system has been subjected to constant attacks aimed at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 the right to a fair trial.
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Tunisia: today, the ICJ denounced the brutal crackdown on political dissent and freedom of expression through a statement delivered during the General debate under item 4 at the Human Rights Council.
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