Topic - Tunisia

Tunisia (pronounced al-Jumhūriyya at-Tūnisiyya), is the northernmost country in Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area is almost 165,000 km², with an estimated population of just over 10.3 million. Its name is derived from the capital Tunis located in the north-east. - Source: Wikipedia

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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, presents a global update on human rights in the world, during the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

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Tunisia's President Kais Saied casts his ballot as he participates in the legislative elections in Tunis, Dec. 17, 2022. As elections approach in Tunisia, potential presidential candidates are facing arrests as authorities clamp down on those planning to participate. Since President Kais Saied took power in 2019, critics and opponents have been arrested, detained and convicted of political charges stemming from criticism of the government.(AP Photo/Slim Abid, File)

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FILE - Tunisian President Kais Saied attends a signing ceremony with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, May 31, 2024. Tunisia presidency says the North African country will hold its next presidential elections on Oct. 6. Its increasingly authoritarian President Kais Saied has yet to announce if he will seek a second term after five tumultuous years of leading Tunisia, once seen as a model of democracy for the Arab world. (Tingshu Wang/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Tunisian lawyers take part in a protest against the recent arrests of their colleagues, in Tunis, Tunisia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Anis Mili)

As crisis escalates in Tunisia, lawyers strike over arrested colleague they say was tortured

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FILE - A Tunisian police officer stands at the entrance at El-Ghriba synagogue, the oldest Jewish monument built in Africa more than 2,500 years ago, while Jewish pilgrims attend the annual Jewish pilgrimage in the resort of Djerba, Tunisia, Friday April 26, 2013. The Jewish Tunisians who organize an annual pilgrimage to one of the world’s oldest synagogues are planning a scaled-down event on May 2024, citing concerns about security less than a year after a deadly shooting shook the community. (AP Photo/Aimen Zine, File)

Jewish Tunisians scale back annual pilgrimage to ancient synagogue because of security concerns

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FILE - People take part in a protest against president Kais Saied policies, in Tunis, Tunisia, March 5, 2023. Prominent Tunisian journalist Mohamed Boughalleb was put under pre-trial detention on a judge's order after a Tuesday, April 16, 2024, hearing in which he dangled the prospect of publishing reporting on corruption and the misuse of public funds by several ministers and public institutions. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

Tunisian journalist sentenced to 6 months in prison for insulting an official

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Former Tunisian President and head of el-Harak party Moncef Marzouki speaks to The Associated Press in Tunis, on Aug.28, 2019. A court in Tunisia this week handed down former President Moncef Marzouki an eight-year prison sentence in abstentia in the latest reflection of the country's ongoing crackdown against opponents of President Kais Saied. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

Tunisia’s ex-president Moncef Marzouki sentenced to 8 years in absentia

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A view of the port of Bizerte, Tunisia, where boats similar to the ones used by migrants to reach Italy are docked, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Tunisia's coast guard retrieved the bodies of nine people who died after their boat sank on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, marking the latest disaster for a surging number of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

After record year, Tunisia reports migrant deaths from shipwreck near Libyan waters

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FILE - Tunisian media mogul Nabil Karoui speaks to journalists after casting his ballot at a polling station during the second round of the presidential election, in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Nabil Karoui — a populist media mogul who has been plagued by charges since being imprisoned in the lead-up to that year's election — was sentenced to three years behind bars on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

A Tunisian court extends the prison term for a one-time presidential candidate

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Islamist party leader and parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi speaks during a meeting in Tunis, Tunisia, on Oct. 3, 2019. Family members of jailed lawyers and politicians, including Ghannouchi, in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations as an increasing number of President Kais Saied's opponents are arrested and several in prison stage hunger strikes. Jailed dissidents' sons and daughters in The Hague, Netherlands, on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, will announce plans to pursue action at the court. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

Families of imprisoned Tunisian dissidents head to the International Criminal Court

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Rescued migrants disembark from a boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa during the evening of Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Tensions on the small island were rising Saturday, as both residents and migrants chafed at the long wait times to transfer people from the crowded reception center to the Italian mainland. Nearly 7,000 migrants arrived on Lampedusa from Tunisia this week, and the Red Cross said that 3,800 remained on the island on Friday. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

EU pledges crackdown on ‘brutal’ migrant smuggling during visit to overwhelmed Italian island

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Italian carabinieri police speak to migrants protesting at a reception center on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Thousands of migrants and refugees have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa this week after crossing the Mediterranean Sea on small unseaworthy boats from Tunisia, overwhelming local authorities and aid organizations. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Top E.U. official heads to an Italian island struggling with migrant influx as Italy toughens stance

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In this photo provided by Sea-Watch on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, four migrant survivors wave for help as they are in distress at sea. Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores have disembarked on three tiny Italian islands in a span of two days, officials said. Separately, a charity vessel carried out 15 rescue operations and the Italian coast guard on Sunday recovered a body off the western coast of Sicily from a shipwreck. (Karolina Sobel/Sea-Watch via AP, File)

Migrants from dozens of boats reach tiny Italian isles; charity ship rescues hundreds of people

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FILE - Migrants gather in a desert area on the Libyan side of the Tunisia-Libya border on Sunday July 23, 2023. Libyan authorities said on Wednesday, Aug, 9 at least 27 suspected African migrants have died in the country’s western desert near the border with Tunisia. In a statement posted on Facebook, Libya’s Interior Ministry said the bodies were discovered recently near the border and that a forensic team had been deployed to the area. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, file)

Tunisia and Libya take 276 migrants stranded in desert border region, bring them to shelters

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In this photo provided by Sea-Watch on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, four migrant survivors wave for help as they are in distress at sea. Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores have disembarked on three tiny Italian islands in a span of two days, officials said. Separately, a charity vessel carried out 15 rescue operations and the Italian coast guard on Sunday recovered a body off the western coast of Sicily from a shipwreck. (Karolina Sobel/Sea-Watch via AP, File)

Italy probes a migrant boat disaster that left 41 feared dead. Four survivors tell a harrowing tale

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