Tunisia faces criticism as prosecutions of journalists proceed beneath President Kais Saied’s rule.
Printed On 4 Sep 2026
Tunisian police have arrested outstanding journalist Mohamed Yousfi, a vocal critic of President Kais Saied’s rule, the top of the Nationwide Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists instructed Reuters.
In response to native journalists, police mentioned that Yousfi, the editor-in-chief of the investigative information web site Al-Qatiba, was introduced in on Friday for questioning. The main target of the investigation is unknown.
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Tunisian authorities haven’t but commented on the arrest, which is the most recent in a string of prosecutions of media figures and activists in Tunisia this 12 months.
Khaoula Boukrim, founding father of the information web site TUMEDIA, who fled to France final 12 months, was sentenced in June to 4 years in absentia.
Distinguished journalist Zied el-Heni was sentenced in Could to 1 12 months in jail, whereas broadcaster Mourad Zeghidi and political commentator Borhen Bsaies have been sentenced in January to 3 and a half years.
Rights teams have warned of a widening crackdown on impartial voices in Tunisia beneath Saied, whose rule has dismantled democratic safeguards, enabling authorities to pursue journalists and critics extra aggressively.
On Thursday, Tunisia’s Court docket of Cassation upheld a mass trial in opposition to 40 figures, together with opposition leaders, attorneys and human rights defenders convicted of conspiring to overthrow Saied.
“The ruling confirms that the judiciary will not be impartial,” mentioned Haifa Chebbi, a lawyer whose father, opposition chief Najib Chebbi, was amongst these sentenced to 12 years.
Tunisia’s Minister of Justice Leila Jaffel mentioned the defendants sought to destabilise the nation.
