Tunisia softens its โfalse newsโ penalty. What really changed, and why now?
Fines replace jail terms for first-time 'false news' offences under a decree rights groups say is still repressive.
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Fines replace jail terms for first-time 'false news' offences under a decree rights groups say is still repressive.
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday softened a cybercrime decree that was widely criticised by rights groups, by scrapping a five-year prison sentence for the dissemination of "fake news"
At least two people, one of them a child, died and six went missing after a dramatic shipwreck off the Tunisian coast, near the Gulf of Gabes, according to the European non-profit humanitarian organisation Sea-Watch on Tuesday
According to lawyers in Tunisia, at least 11 people have been arrested after calling for the release of jailed organisers of a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla.
Hundreds of Tunisians have protested in Tunis, demanding the release of four Global Sumud Flotilla activists.
In Tunisia, the summer is ending, but the boating season is still in swing. The boating industry has been quietly growing, despite an overall sluggish economy. Since the sector was reorganized through a trade association in 2024, there have been numerous foreign factories set up and Tunisia has become a hub for boat construction โ from pleasure crafts to sophisticated yachts. Report by Lilia Blaise and Fadil Aliriza.
The four have been held since March in a financial investigation linked to organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla.