On Monday, November 23, a 21-year old woman died after falling into a stormwater drainage channel in the industrial area of Enfidha in the governorate of Sousse. Her death marks the second time in less than two months that dangerous infrastructure has taken the life of a young person.
The town of Tabarka, nestled between green mountains and the sea, close to the Algerian border, boasts a natural beauty that has made it a major tourist attraction for decades. In 2017, nearly a quarter of a million tourists visited Tabarka and its nearby mountain villages according to one report. Despite the beauty, the town’s main trash dump had been near one of the main roads entering the town for years until 2015, when it was finally moved. But the new dump location is near a hospital, close to a training school for the hospitality sector, and may be leaking into local water resources. When locals living near the dump protested earlier this year by blocking a national highway, calling on officials to move it elsewhere, several were briefly detainedby police.
تجمهر متظاهرون، بتاريخ 06 أكتوبر الجاري، أمام مقر البرلمان للاحتجاج ضد مشروع قانون يهدف لضمان حصانة قانونية للقوات الأمنية من الملاحقة القضائية عند الإفراط في استخدام القوة. وهو أول تحرك ضمن سلسلة من التحركات الاحتجاجية المعارضة لتمرير هذا القانون. وقد قامت القوات الأمنية بالاعتداء على المحتجين وإلقاء القبض على أربعة منهم وجرهم لمركز الشرطة بمنطقة باردو. مشكال/نواة تحدثت مع الأشخاص الأربعة، الذين تم إيقافهم بسبب الاحتجاجات ليتم إطلاق سراحهم لاحقا، حول تجاوزات الشرطة التي تعرضوا لها.
On Tuesday, October 6, demonstrators gathered in front of Parliament to protest a draft law under discussion seeking to grant security forces legal immunity from prosecution for use of force—the first of several protests against the law this week. Police forces then assaulted protesters and detained four of them at a police station in the Bardo neighborhood. Meshkal/Nawaat spoke with the four people who were detained and later released about the police abuse they experienced.
