Tunisia: Release Former Truth Commission President

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Sihem Bensedrine. © 2018 NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – A Tunisian judge has detained a prominent activist and former president of the Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, apparently in retaliation for her work on accountability for decades of human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. Tunisian authorities should immediately release her.An investigative judge of a Tunis court ordered Bensedrine detained on August 1, 2024, after a hearing connected to her work as head of the Truth and Dignity Commission between…

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