Tunisia

Help us help Iheb and Rochdi, gay Tunisians imprisoned for who they are
Anti-gay candidate leads in Tunisia’s presidential election
LGBT Tunisia: Rift over Israel, tactics, morals of gay candidate
Exposing LGBTI myths, interviewing saviors in the Middle East
Victory for human rights in Tunisia
U.N. experts to Tunisia: Don’t shut down Shams
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Slow progress for gay rights in North Africa
Location of Tunisia in northern Africa.
Death (denied) in Tunisia’s queer cell block
Tunisia targets pro-gay advocacy at Shams
Shams President Mounir Baatour holds a rainbow banner during an August 2018 demonstration in Tunis for equality and individual liberties. (Photo courtesy of Mounir Baatour)
Horror for a young man under the shade of Tunisian palms
Gay Tunisian flees to Europe to avoid prison for homosexuality
Location of Tunisia (Map courtesy of Human Rights Watch)
Tunisia: Raped, robbed, then arrested for homosexuality
Tunisian head of state Youssef Chahed (ITU Pictures photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
European MPs urge Tunisia to halt gay arrests, torture
Tunisia: Engineer loses job, faces trial for old videos on his phone
Tunisian prosecutors have relied extensively in recent years on forced anal examinations to seek “evidence” of sodomy, even though the exams are highly unreliable and constitute cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment that can rise to the level of torture. (Illustration courtesy of HRW)
Tunisia, stop searching phones and anuses; abolish anti-gay law
Bomb threats in Russia, raid in Beirut; activists carry on