Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Tunisia’s young democracy flounders as its president wins a second term

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par Serag El Hegazi, Lecturer in the Department of Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford

There was tension hanging in the air as I walked through Tunisia’s capital city, Tunis, in July, just months before the country’s latest presidential election. The conversations I had in cafes and markets confirmed people’s uncertainty and apprehension about the state of their country.

Tunisia was the location of an uprising against corruption, poverty and political repression in 2011 that ousted longtime autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The uprising, which came to be known as the Jasmine Revolution,…

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