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Olfa Belhassine

Tunisia - Correspondent
5 May 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
As Tunisia emerges from confinement, what future for its specialized chambers? As Tunisia this week starts gradually coming out of confinement, will the fate of the judicial chambers specialized in transitional justice be sacrificed on the altar of economic recovery? Some victims are worried about this, whil [...]
21 April 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
Justice is eminently political, says Tunisian expert What are the links between transitional justice and political changes in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria? We talked to Eric Gobe, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and directing editor of Justice [...]
30 March 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian President "can put dictatorship archives at centre of debate" In the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, Farah Hached founded Labo Democratique, an NGO whose aim is to help consolidate a "living and innovative" democracy. Managing the archives of the dictatorship is central for Hached, who [...]
28 February 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia and the repression of left-wing youth In the 1960s and 1970s, young Tunisian students joined the extreme left to oppose the absolute power of President Bourguiba. They were called "Perspectivists". They suffered the worst abuses. Nearly 50 years later, a specialized c [...]
7 February 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian government to “respond to all TRC demands” There is a wind of change in Tunisia following several announcements hailed by civil society: upcoming publication in the Official Journal of the truth commission’s report and list of the injured and martyrs of the 2010-2011 democ [...]
16 January 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Battle over Truth Commission archives Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission has recently completed the transfer of its archives to the country’s National Archives. But it does not want this institution to keep the audiovisual recordings of victims and witnesses.
7 January 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Truth still elusive in symbolic Barkati case The trial of the alleged torturers and killers of Nabil Barkati, a leftwing activist tortured to death in 1987, seems to be the most advanced of the cases currently being examined by Tunisia’s specialized chambers. But although se [...]
17 December 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
“I’m not sure Tunisia’s political parties will advance human rights,” says expert Law professor and human rights activist Wahid Ferchichi is an expert on transitional justice in Tunisia. Nine years after the revolution in Tunisia and one year after the country’s Truth Commission finished its work, he analyses t [...]
16 December 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian victims still suffering nine years on Nine years after the Tunisian revolution, which began on 17 December 2010, victims of serious human rights violations are still in great distress. Poorly coordinated care, partial compensation and lack of official recognition are [...]
24 October 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s specialized courts at a standstill In a deserted courtroom, two victims recounted the arrests, brutal interrogations, torture and lay-offs that followed the strike of 26 January 1978. Yet this is one of the flagship cases transmitted by the Truth and Dignity Commis [...]
17 October 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: what will the newly elected do for transitional justice? Tunisia has a new jurist President and a new political landscape emerging from the October 6 elections which could, if confirmed by the game of alliances, be more favourable to transitional justice.
13 September 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s presidential hopefuls shun transitional justice issue Transitional justice is an issue almost absent from Tunisia’s current presidential campaign. There are 26 candidates in the running, but hardly any focus on this crucial question.
3 September 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia's Truth Commission vs France, the IMF and World Bank On July 16, Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) sent two memorandums calling first on France and then on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to apologize and pay reparations to Tunisian victims. It says they al [...]
14 May 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia and the disputed accounts of its truth commission The Tunisian Court of Audit, which is responsible for the oversight of public funds and is known to operate independently and impartially, published its audit report on the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) at the end of April. I [...]
3 May 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia Truth Commission report (Part II): Justice and prisons, tools of oppression Among the mechanisms on which the Bourguiba and Ben Ali regimes relied was the justice system which became a tool of government, and prisons, where all manner of violence and abuse took place. In its section on the mechanisms of s [...]
30 April 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia Truth Commission report (Part I) : dissected oppression A meticulous network throughout the country by the one-party State and special agents of the Interior Ministry helped keep Tunisians in subjection for several decades, explains the final report of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commi [...]
25 April 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Tension is rising between victims and government A serious incident occurred on 23 April between victims and the national authorities. One victim of the old regime went so far as to threaten to commit suicide under the nose of an advisor to the head of government. In the middle [...]
18 April 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Sihem Bensedrine: “France and the World Bank should compensate Tunisian victims” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Sihem Bensedrine Head of the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) in Tunisia In Tunisia, the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) has just concluded its work with a final report of two thousand page [...]
12 April 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia : the threat of an amnesty Tunisia_bill_transitional-justice-reconciliationTélécharger The draft of a bill aimed at putting an end to the transitional justice process is circulating within parliamentary groups. This draft envisages an amnesty for all cases [...]