Tunisia

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
Protesters carry a banner reading "Quran text before any other text" outside the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Aug. 11. (Hassene Dridi photo courtesy of the Associated Press)
Protesters vs. petitioners: Dispute over Tunisia’s anti-gay law
Beji Caid Essebi, president of Tunisia (Photo courtesy of Reddit)
Tunisian officials propose repeal of anti-gay law
Banner for 2018's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
IDAHOT day: Festivities but homophobic hate too
Rift splits Tunisian LGBT rights advocates
In a world where dozens of countries (shown in red) have anti-LGBT laws, about 400 million LGBTQI people are in legal jeopardy.
‘400 million LGBT people in jeopardy worldwide’
Logo of the African Queer Youth Initiative
Young queer Africans take a stand
Tunisian LBGT activists help Bouhdid Belhedi (C), the director of Shams Radio, the first LGBT radio in the Arab region, after a scuffle with police who came to disperse the protest in Tunis on Jan. 27, 2018. (Fethi Belaid photo courtesy of AFP)
Tunisian police block protest of anti-LGBT law
Poster for the Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival
Tunisia gets its first queer film festival
Tunisia: LGBT online radio undaunted by 5,000 threats
11 glimmers of hope for LGBT rights in 2017
Tunisia drops anal tests, but not its anti-gay law