President Beji Caid Essebsi decided, Tuesday, a special pardon for 1,322 detainees and sentence reduction for 813 others, on the 4th Anniversary of the Revolution and Youth Day. Out of 2,135 files, some 1,322 detainees were pardoned and 813 others benefited of sentence reduction, a press release of the Presidency of the Republic specifies. The decision was made at the […]
The Presidency of the Republic announced, Friday, the conclusion an “informal” agreement with eight organisations and associations of human rights, providing for the establishment of a liaison committee between the two parties for monitoring the file of torture. The announcement of this agreement comes few days before the president elect Beacuteji Caid Essebsi takes office. According to a statement published […]
The first International Women’s Rally, a sport competition with a tourist vocation held from December 27 to January 1, 2015, with the participation of some 50 competitors from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and France, was kick-started, Saturday in Hammamet. The caravan then head to Kairouan where the participants visited the historical and tourist monuments before going to Tozeur in the Tunisian […]
A network recruiting Tunisian youths to fight in hotbeds of tension was dismantled in the delegation of Ben Guerdane, in the governorate of Medenine. According to a news release of the Interior Ministry, Saturday, the four members of this network were arrested. The operation is part of the process of dismantling recruitment networks of takfirists to go fight in hotbeds […]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is holding, on December 5-6, a workshop for the launch of a consulting and expertise group on youth with the support of the European Union (EU). The workshop is part of the NET-MED Youth Project (Networks of Mediterranean Youth 2014-2017) carried out in ten Southern Mediterranean countries, including Tunisia. The project […]
Mufti of the Republic Hamda Said decried the use of children by terrorists as a human shield and called it a cowardly and despicable act. The repetitive attacks against the country and the people while using innocents as human shields make the crime even more shameful, the Mufti said Friday in a press release. Hamda Said underlined that putting children […]
National Constituent Assembly (NCA) President Mustapha Ben Jaafar laid emphasis on youths’ responsibility in making of the legislative and presidential elections a success, “by controlling the electoral process and mobilising citizens for these events.” Chairing, Thursday, the opening of the second session of the Tunisian Youth Parliament, Ben Jaafar voiced wish that these youths will be elected after five years […]
“47% candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections are women with only nearly 12% are heads of list,” Secretary of State for Women and Family Affairs Neila Chaabane said Monday. Speaking at a seminar on “Women’s rights at election time and the role of the integral law in combating violence against women and girls,” Mrs. Chaabane said women’s participation in political […]
Convening, Wednesday, in a plenary session, the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) adopted articles 40 and 41 of the draft organic law related to the fight against terrorism and money laundering and rejected articles 42 and 43 of the same draft law. Articles 40 and 41 were adopted after modification. Source : Tunis Afrique Presse
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) organisation called for a thorough and independent investigation on the fatal shooting, last August 23 in Kasserine, of two young women by police. According to a statement released public, Thursday, it also claimed to make sure that any officers who used their weapons unlawfully are held fully accountable. “These latest deaths show an urgent need […]
Tunisia’s Habiba Ghribi, silver medallist at the London Olympics 2012, repeated her performance by finishing second at the 3000m steeple race in the 11th stage of the Diamond League Thursday evening in Stockholm. The Tunisian athlete was very close to the highest step of the podium, clocking 9min 18sec 39, one second and 35 cents behind Ethiopia’s Hiwot Ayalew, gold […]
Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa had, Tuesday, a working session with members of the Truth and Dignity Authority during which arrangements to be taken to facilitate the authority’s task and speed up setting up its central and regional structures. In a statement to the media at the end of the meeting, Authority President Sihem Ben Sedrine said that the arrangements consist […]
