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    غزة.. مقتل 3 فلسطينيين برصاص الاحتلال قرب مركز توزيع مساعدات برفح

    Gaza: New massacre as air strike targets queue for children’s nutritional supplements

    إضراب جماعي عن الطعام في السجون المصرية.. نداء لوقف الانتهاكات الحقوقية

    Badr 3 Prison “Between Walls of Silence and Slow Death”

    تحذير أممي من تفاقم الإبادة الجماعية في غزة بسبب الحصار

    Hunger as a Weapon of War: Israel Deepens Gaza’s Catastrophe Through Siege and Starvation

    التصريحات لا توقف الإبادة… وعلى المجتمع الدولي التحرك لردع الاحتلال ومحاكمة قادته

    Gaza: Israeli Occupation Continues All-Out War on Civilians

    الاحتلال يقصف مدرسة للأونروا 5 مرات خلال 11 شهرًا

    Palestinian Education Under Fire: Over 18,000 Students Killed and Hundreds of Schools Destroyed

    غزة.. مقتل 10 فلسطينيين في قصف إسرائيلي قرب تجمع للنازحين

    IOF Escalates Its Bloody Attacks on Displaced Persons’ Tents in Southern Gaza

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    على الحكومة البريطانية فرض عقوبات على مسؤولي مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية

    The British Government Must Impose Sanctions on Officials of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

    قمع قافلة الصمود: السلطات المصرية تُجهض تحركًا شعبيًا نبيلًا للتضامن مع غزة وتتماهى مجددا مع سياسات الاحتلال

    Crackdown on the “Soumoud Convoy”: Egyptian Authorities Suppress a Noble Popular Initiative in Solidarity with Gaza, Aligning Once Again with the Occupation’s Policies

    يجب حل “مؤسسة غزة” وملاحقة ومحاسبة القائمين عليها

    “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” Must Be Dissolved and Its Administrators Held Accountable

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    ندوة: هل يكفي التهديد الأوروبي بفرض عقوبات على الاحتلال؟

    Webinar Report: Is Threatening Sanctions Enough? European Complicity in Gaza’s Genocide Under the Spotlight

    ندوة: الاحتلال يدمر القطاع الصحي في غزة عبر أكثر الادوات وحشية وسط تجاهل دولي مخز

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    ندوة: هل يكفي التهديد الأوروبي بفرض عقوبات على الاحتلال؟

    Webinar Report: Is Threatening Sanctions Enough? European Complicity in Gaza’s Genocide Under the Spotlight

    ندوة: استئناف الإبادة في غزة وسط التواطؤ الدولي وازدواجية معايير صناع القرار

    Webinar Report: Resumption of Genocide in Gaza Amid International Complicity

    ندوة: قطع إسرائيل المساعدات الإنسانية عن غزة وخرق وقف إطلاق النار وسعي نتنياهو لاستئناف حرب الإبادة

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    غزة.. مقتل 3 فلسطينيين برصاص الاحتلال قرب مركز توزيع مساعدات برفح

    Gaza: New massacre as air strike targets queue for children’s nutritional supplements

    إضراب جماعي عن الطعام في السجون المصرية.. نداء لوقف الانتهاكات الحقوقية

    Badr 3 Prison “Between Walls of Silence and Slow Death”

    تحذير أممي من تفاقم الإبادة الجماعية في غزة بسبب الحصار

    Hunger as a Weapon of War: Israel Deepens Gaza’s Catastrophe Through Siege and Starvation

    التصريحات لا توقف الإبادة… وعلى المجتمع الدولي التحرك لردع الاحتلال ومحاكمة قادته

    Gaza: Israeli Occupation Continues All-Out War on Civilians

    الاحتلال يقصف مدرسة للأونروا 5 مرات خلال 11 شهرًا

    Palestinian Education Under Fire: Over 18,000 Students Killed and Hundreds of Schools Destroyed

    غزة.. مقتل 10 فلسطينيين في قصف إسرائيلي قرب تجمع للنازحين

    IOF Escalates Its Bloody Attacks on Displaced Persons’ Tents in Southern Gaza

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    The British Government Must Impose Sanctions on Officials of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

    قمع قافلة الصمود: السلطات المصرية تُجهض تحركًا شعبيًا نبيلًا للتضامن مع غزة وتتماهى مجددا مع سياسات الاحتلال

    Crackdown on the “Soumoud Convoy”: Egyptian Authorities Suppress a Noble Popular Initiative in Solidarity with Gaza, Aligning Once Again with the Occupation’s Policies

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    “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” Must Be Dissolved and Its Administrators Held Accountable

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Police in Tunisia accused of excessive force against protesters

February 10, 2021
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Police in Tunisia accused of excessive force against protesters

Police in Tunisia accused of excessive force against protesters

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Police in Tunisia accused of excessive force against protesters

One man has died and hundreds arrested during several weeks of protests for social and economic justice in Tunisia.

Haykel Rachdi died in January from a major head injury following police contact, and many others have alleged being beaten by police officers during the protests. Other accusations include excessive use of tear gas by police, arrests of peaceful protesters and a lack of access to lawyers.

Tunisia is currently under curfew from 8pm to 5am, but human rights groups have argued that political expression must not fall victim to the public health regulations.

Prime minister Hichem Mechichi said in January that the police had been acting “professionally”, despite widespread reports of violence against demonstrators.

Ten years after mass protests brought down the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, demonstrations erupted once more across the country, as many Tunisians say life has not improved for them since the advent of democracy.

The recent protests, held during the coronavirus pandemic, began on 15 January, sparked this time by a Facebook video showing police harassment of a shepherd in Siliana. They spread across the country from Kesserine to Sidi Bouzid, Bizerte, Tebourba, Sousse and then to poorer neighbourhoods in Tunis.

No single group is responsible for organising the protests, but many participants are calling for police powers to be curbed, the resignation of the government and an end to corruption.

Several journalists have also reported being harassed by police while covering the protests, raising concerns that police behaviour seen during the authoritarian regime of Ben Ali was returning to post-revolution Tunisia.

Police have been accused of using batons to attack protesters and for using tear gas on housing in areas where residents had joined the actions. Alleged protesters as young as 13 years old have so far been arrested. Many detainees reported that they were forced to sign statements written by police.

Haykel Rachdi, a 21-year-old student, died after being struck by a police tear gas canister during a protest. Rachdi’s associates said that even during the funeral, police fired tear gas into those in attendance. Eye-witnesses have claimed that as soon as the funeral procession began, canisters were shot at mourners’ arms and legs by police from 60 law enforcement vehicles at the scene.

Another man, Ahmed Ghram, a 25-year-old philosophy student, was arrested at his family home in Tunis on January 17. He was detained after posting Facebook comments critical of police repression and government corruption.

Read also: Egypt frees Al-Jazeera Journalist, Mahmoud Hussein, after 4 years imprisonment

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