Experts and relatives of detained politicians raise alarm on the government’s heavy hand.
Tunisian protesters accuse President Kais Saied of orchestrating a power grab and harming the economy.
Demonstrators in Tunis marked 12 years since the Arab Spring revolution erupted across the region.
Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman and UAE’s Mohammed bin Zayed will however not attend the Algiers summit.
Where is the country heading under the leadership of President Kais Saied?
In separate letters, legislators and advocacy groups ask Biden administration to do more to protect Tunisian democracy.
President Kais Saied dissolves parliament in latest move to consolidate power.
Tunis sees heavy police presence as hundreds rally against President Kais Saied despite COVID restrictions.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, one of Egypt’s last independent rights groups, has shut down.
“Why have you killed my father and my uncles and my grandfather? Where is the justice?”
Egypt sentences Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to jail with two others for speaking ‘fake news’.
President says anniversary to mark the beginning of the uprising, rather than the deposing of former dictator Ben Ali.
Egypt’s former military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi has died aged 85, Egypt’s presidency said.
Power cuts have become a regular occurrence in the war-torn country where people say authorities are not doing enough.
