Instance vérité et dignité

Sihem Bensedrine (former president of Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission) presents the IVD's report to President Béji Caïd Essebsi in 2018.

Tunisia

Attacks resume against Tunisia’s Truth Commission

23 January 2024 by Olfa Belhassine

The former president of the UN-backed Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, on January 12 responded to the Tunisian government's latest accusations of "falsification". Attacks on the commission resumed immediately in med [...]

Kamel Matmati

Tunisia

Tunisia: glimmers of hope in the Matmati trial

28 May 2021 by Olfa Belhassine

It is 30 years since the murder and disappearance of young Tunisian Islamist activist Kamel Matmati and three years since the trial for him opened, the first to be held before the specialized transitional justice chambers. On 25 M [...]