Tunisia mass trial highlights opposition crackdown, weakening of judiciary | Human Rights News

For detractors of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, the trial of more than 40 opposition figures is quite clearly a further nail in the coffin of the country’s democracy – and the rule of law.

The defendants in the trial – which resumes on Friday after being adjourned the day it opened on March 4 – are some of the government’s leading critics. They include former diplomats, media personalities, and members of what was once parliament’s biggest party, the ‘Muslim Democrat’…