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Human rights organizations and civil society groups condemned the detention of Tunisia’s former top anti-corruption official on financial charges as a politically motivated campaign of revenge aimed at silencing defenders of the nation’s fading democratic institutions.

A Paris appeals court has blocked the extradition of the late dictator’s 33-year-old daughter, who was arrested last fall on charges of laundering her father’s illicit wealth.

Three fatalities in Tunisian prisons within one week in July have alarmed rights groups about prison conditions and alleged mistreatment, leading to urgent appeals for government investigations.

Human Rights Watch cautions that Tunisia is imprisoning critics under ambiguous laws and severe conditions, with many facing imprisonment or death for online posts and political opinions.

Tunisian uniformed personnel sold migrant groups between 40 to 150 people for prices ranging between 12 to 90 euros per person to Libyan armed forces and militias.

Tunisian courts convicted three media workers this week, amid what critics say is a wider crackdown on civil society by the government of President Kaïs Saïed.

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Doctors at La Rabta Hospital in Tunisia diagnosed a patient with schizophrenia after he pierced his own scrotum with two nails because an 'imaginary person' told him to