Coverage tagged: Tunisia (TUN)
Every story tagged to Tunisia in the reporting behind our ratings, newest first. State-self-reported sources are excluded from scoring; non-anglophone coverage is surfaced in translation. Every card links to its source.
4 stories, newest first - 2 on this page in translation
Blackout-driven protests entered a second month with the new Nafas movement leading Tunis demonstrations Aug 20; police swept activists' homes overnight Aug 21 with at least one arrest. Sustained, organized, met with targeted repression; consistent with the July cut, levels held with confidence up.
Thousands demonstrated in central Tunis July 25 on the fifth anniversary of Saied's power grab, chanting for the fall of the regime, merging with nationwide blackout protests, road blockades and burning tires; Saied framed the outages as sabotage and criminal probes were opened against civil servants on the electricity file. The first at-scale convergence of service anger and regime-change demands: drove political stability near -4 to -5; rule of law held at -6.
Blackouts of six-plus hours ran from July 12 as demand hit a record 6 GW July 21 in 49-50C heat, with ~900 wildfires in three days and the failure rooted in aging plant, deferred maintenance and declining domestic gas; the young-doctors' organisation claims 150-200 deaths since the cuts began (single professional-association estimate, direction only, not scored). Drove Tunisia infrastructure -2 to -4.
At the UN Human Rights Council session closing July 8, UN experts and civil society documented systematic targeting of civil society, journalists, opposition, lawyers and migrants under Saied, including a 25-year sentence for former truth-commission president Sihem Bensedrine. Drove Tunisia civil_liberties -6 to -7.