Who is on trial in Tunisia, under which law, and what the courts have decided. This page gathers HuMENA’s statements and analyses on the press there, beside the records of the journalists we document.
What we have published
- Joint StatementsHuMENA Joins the Committee to Protect Journalists and 15 Rights and Media Organizations in Calling for Zied el-Heni’s Release5 November 2026
- StatementsTunisia | Article 24 Reform Leaves Questions of Justice Unanswered9 October 2026
- StatementsTunisia | Drop Terrorism and State-Security Charges Against Journalist Zied El Heni, Already Serving a One-Year Sentence 25 September 2026
- StatementsTunisia | Ensure Mohamed Yousfi’s Defense Rights and Medical Care Pending His Release10 September 2026
- AnalysisFrom Criticism to Crime: How Tunisia Uses Article 86 Against Dissent3 September 2026
- Joint StatementsTunisia | Appeal to stop imprisoning journalists and human rights defenders31 July 2026
- ReportsTunisia | The Verdict Against Zied El-Heni: How Tunisia Is Criminalizing Journalistic Expression A legal reading of Article 86, Law-Decree 54, and the sidelining of Tunisia’s press law safeguards11 May 2026
- StatementsTunisia | HuMENA Condemns the Imprisonment of Journalist Zied El Heni and Calls for the Verdict to Be Annulled9 May 2026
- Press ReleasesTunisia | Criminalizing Journalism: Zghidi and Bessis Sentenced24 January 2026
- AnalysisDecree Law 54 in Tunisia: Between Protecting Digital Space and Threatening Freedoms24 April 2025
- Joint StatementsJoint statement: Crackdown on Civil Society and Human Rights in Tunisia: Arrests and Intimidation in the Wake of the 2024 Presidential Elections.22 October 2024
- ReportsUnder Siege: The Shrinking Space for Peaceful Assembly in Tunisia2 September 2024
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