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Tunisia suspends rights group amid widening repression

Tunisian authorities have suspended the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH), one of Africa's oldest human rights groups and co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize as part of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, for one month. The suspension is part of a broader crackdown on civil society, opposition, and media under President Kais Saied, who has ruled by decree since seizing expanded powers in 2021, prompting widespread accusations of growing authoritarianism in the country once hailed as the only democratic success of the Arab Spring.