A report published in early July by a group of associations reports threats to individual freedoms acquired in Tunisia for 2020-2021.
as reported from Tunis, Lilia blaise
Punishing hatred on social networks is not punished, but in return it is punished to express oneself freely, especially when an Internet user criticizes government policy during a pandemic. This is one of the conclusions of the report “The Year for All Threats” published in early July by the Civil Collective for Individual Freedoms, a group of associations that have been working since 2016 to highlight progress or setbacks in this area. in Tunisia.
Within the framework of the health crisis, the collective has collected several testimonies of violations and attacks that particularly affect women, LGBTQ people and migrants south of the Sahara.
Dynamism in civil society
Finally, the right to demonstrate, guaranteed by the constitution, was tested in early January when many young people went out to express their tiredness, which led to many arrests.
The health crisis and the exceptional measures that followed it led to the restriction of rights and freedoms according to the report. The dynamism of civil society to mobilize in the face of abuse is still a positive point, but the country still suffers from a lack of harmonization between its 2014 constitution and the current legislative system, which is still used in an often oppressive way.
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