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Lauren Seibert

Inserted 9 months ago

“Not only is it unconscionable to abuse people and abandon them in the desert, but collective expulsions violate international law.”

Aljazeera

Refugee and migrant rights researcher at HRW

06 Jul 2023 1 2

Yamina Zoghlami

Inserted 2 years ago

“We want early presidential and legislative elections. We are in the midst of a political crisis and we must have a political dialogue to save the country.”

Aljazeera

Tunisian politician member of the Ennahdha party

20 Mar 2022 3 2

Anas Hamadi

Inserted 2 years ago

“The judiciary is a red line that cannot be crossed. We are going to defend our judicial power and our democracy. Unfortunately the situation is very serious and [Kais Saied] is not giving any answers. He clearly intends to lay hands on the justice system to be able to attack anyone who opposes his decisions.”

Aljazeera

President of the Association of Tunisian Judges

09 Feb 2022 5 3

Ridha Belhaj

Inserted 2 years ago

“A large opposition front will come into being to fight this authoritarian drift, especially as the economic and social crisis deepens, increasingly isolating Kais Saied... The big problem since the revolution is this mismatch between the people's socioeconomic demands, unfulfilled until today, and the pursuit of neoliberal policies that has continued post-2011. This is the time for the political class to reflect on the mistakes made in the past 11 years and move forward on new terms.”

Aljazeera

Lawyer and member of the Citizens Against the Coup initiative’s executive committee

16 Jan 2022 5 4

Tarek Kahlaoui

Inserted 2 years ago

“The political elite is trying to state its presence in the public sphere in an act of resistance against the president's intent to monopolise the political process.”

Aljazeera

Tunisian political analyst

16 Jan 2022 1 2

Abderrouf Betbaib

Inserted 2 years ago

“Tunisia is isolated internationally now with the closing of parliament and the coup … we want to restore democracy.”

Aljazeera

Former adviser of Kais Saied

14 Nov 2021 4 2

Elizia Volkmann

Inserted 2 years ago

“A lot of protesters have large printed placards or pictures of journalists and members of parliament, lawyers, who have been arrested or imprisoned since July 25. They want to return to normal functioning of parliament. They want to return to the 2014 constitution, they want Kais Saied to step down and they would like to see new … [presidential and legislative] elections held.”

Aljazeera

Journalist based in Tunis

14 Nov 2021 10 3

Jawher Ben Mbarek

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are under one-man rule [Kais Saied] since July 25 … we will stay here until they open the roads and end the siege.”

Aljazeera

Tunisian protest leader

14 Nov 2021 1 2

Raja Masmoudi

Inserted 2 years ago

“The future in Tunisia is really scary to me. For now, we don't know what we will have as institutions. We don't have a parliament, we don't have democracy in our country.”

Apnews

Tunisian teacher at Sunday’s demonstration

10 Oct 2021 3 3

Amel ben Amar

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are against the parliament, we are with Kais Saied. He is in the process of correcting and repairing our system. He is a democratic man.”

Aljazeera

Demonstrator supporting the the Tunisian President Kais Saied

03 Oct 2021 2 4

Bernard Smith

Inserted 2 years ago

“There are other protests happening across Tunisia, all of them to show support for the president [Kais Saied]. These protests are to show that there remains support for what the president is doing. This is despite the fact that there is still no plan to pull Tunisia out of the dire economic circumstance it is in.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Tunis

03 Oct 2021 2 5

Adel Chemli

Inserted 2 years ago

“Today is a historical day. It is the first time the majority of the people are with their president. I have known Saied [Kais Saied] for 40 years. I was in the faculty of law with him, I came from Canada to support him. I'm nearly 60 years old, I am doing this for the young people for their future.”

Aljazeera

Demonstrator supporting the the Tunisian President Kais Saied

03 Oct 2021 1 3

Salem Ajoudi

Inserted 2 years ago

“We ask the president [Kais Saied] to dissolve parliament and hold accountable those who made the people suffer for a decade.”

Aljazeera

Demonstrator supporting the the Tunisian President Kais Saied

03 Oct 2021 1 3

Amin Ben Salem

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is a positive sign that a woman [Najla Bouden Romdhane] will lead the government. I hope she will immediately start saving the country from the spectre of bankruptcy. She should quickly look at the problems of Tunisians.”

Aljazeera

Banker in Tunis

29 Sep 2021 3 4

Kais Saied

Inserted 2 years ago

“For the first time in Tunisia's history, a woman will head a government [Najla Bouden Romdhane].”

Aljazeera

President of Tunisia

29 Sep 2021 1 2

Cherif El Kadhi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Saeed [Kais Saied] is against or opposed to many parts of the 2014 constitution - he wants a new regime and he's really willing to change the political system at probably any cost.”

Aljazeera

Tunisian former Parliament and Political Affairs Officer

29 Sep 2021 2 5

Bernard Smith

Inserted 2 years ago

“Ordinarily under Tunisia's constitutional system, the president appoints a prime minister, who then appoints members of her cabinet and this all has to be approved by Parliament. But the president has suspended Parliament - so he's appointed Najla Bouden Romdhane as prime minister, but there'll be no parliamentary approval of this.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Tunis

29 Sep 2021 3 3

Abdellatif Mekki

Inserted 2 years ago

“I have no choice. We must confront the coup for the sake of Tunisia.”

Aljazeera

Tunisian politician member of the Ennahdha party and former Minister of Health

25 Sep 2021 1 2

Rabeb Aloui

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think this is the biggest crisis that the Ennahdha party has lived. It was expected since the tensions started one year ago. The extent of the mutiny had taken many observers by surprise.”

Aljazeera

Independent journalist in Tunis

25 Sep 2021 2 3

Ahlem Hachicha

Inserted 2 years ago

“After Saied [Kais Saied] put the whole country on hold for about two months … he has now produced a set of rules that basically say he holds every form of power, over every aspect of the private life of citizens, ruling over every public and private institution, with no form of checks and balances. The rule of one person is the opposite of democracy. We paid a high price to learn that and that's what people rejected in 2011.”

Aljazeera

Tunis-based political analyst

24 Sep 2021 3 4

Adnen Mansar

Inserted 2 years ago

“The latest decrees completely contradict the 2014 constitution which established a parliamentary system. The decrees are in line with the 1959 constitution overturned by the uprising a decade ago that triggered the so-called Arab Spring. This move puts a plug on the principles of a democratic system.”

Aljazeera

President of the Center of Strategic Studies on the Maghreb (CESMA)

24 Sep 2021 4 5

Rached Ghannouchi

Inserted 2 years ago

“We call on the people to take part in peaceful actions to resist dictatorship and return Tunisia to the path of democracy. The situation is worse now than it was before July 25. Before that there were no arrests over blog posts, no thousands of Tunisians banned from leaving the country.”

Aljazeera

Leader of Tunisia’s Ennahdha party

23 Sep 2021 2 3

Anour Ben Kadour

Inserted 2 years ago

“Tunisia is heading towards absolute individual rule.”

Aljazeera

Senior official in the Tunisian UGTT labour union

23 Sep 2021 0 2

Kais Saied

Inserted 2 years ago

“Amendments must be made within the framework of the constitution.”

Reuters

President of Tunisia

11 Sep 2021 2 3

Sami Tahri

Inserted 2 years ago

“Our Tunisian affair should be resolved only among Tunisians, UGTT union will not participate in the invitation of the American embassy. UGTT did not accept the bullying of foreigners in the time of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and will not accept it today and tomorrow.”

Reuters

Spokesman of UGTT union

03 Sep 2021 4 2

Monica Marks

Inserted 2 years ago

“His supporters see in him [President Kais Saied] the last, best hope to achieve the goals of the revolution that were never realized. But we know clean people who genuinely want to achieve good aims can sometimes turn into people who chop off heads.”

Nytimes

Middle East politics professor at New York University Abu Dhabi

26 Aug 2021 1 2

Ravi Prasad

Inserted 2 years ago

“After the revolution, what we witnessed was that media in Tunisia had great freedom. But now this hard-fought freedom the media got is at risk because of the changes that are taking place. We do need independent media in Tunisia at this moment, and we need the support of the international community, and pressure on the government, to stop harassing the media, allow media organisations like Al Jazeera … to function and get the news to the people.”

Aljazeera

Head of global outreach for the International Press Institute

29 Jul 2021 2 3

Bassam Trifi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Yesterday we issued a statement that we won't accept any infringement on our liberties, the ones we gained in 2011. Whatever the explanation of what happened at the state TV is, civil society is aware of any attempts to affect our freedoms, the liberties acquired through the struggle of Tunisian people. We are watching where all of this is going carefully.”

Aljazeera

Deputy head of the Tunisian Human Rights League

29 Jul 2021 1 4

Antony Blinken

Inserted 2 years ago

“The intentions he [Kais Saied] expressed to me were to return Tunisia to that democratic path and to act in a way that was consistent with the constitution. But of course we have to look at the actions that the president takes, that Tunisia takes. So our strong hope and expectation is that Tunisia will return to that democratic path, act consistent with the constitution, unfreeze the parliament, have a government in place to do the work of the people, to be responsive to their needs.”

Aljazeera

U.S. Secretary of State

29 Jul 2021 3 3

Tarek Megerisi

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's not that Kais [Kais Saied] is so popular himself, it's people who just really, really hate the incumbent political elite. They blame them for all the country's problems and think that they need to be removed.”

Nytimes

Senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

26 Jul 2021 1 4

Safwan M. Masri

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is a very concerning development that puts the democracy at great risk of unraveling. An optimistic scenario would be that the Parliament and the Constitution and democratic institutions would prevail and that he [Tunisia's President Kais Saied] would be forced out of office. But I would not bet any money on it.”

Nytimes

Executive vice president of Columbia University’s Global Centers network

26 Jul 2021 1 4

Imed Ayadi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Saied [Kais Saied] is a new Sisi who wants to collect all authority for himself ...We will stand up to the coup against the revolution.”

Reuters

Member of the Tunisian political party Ennahda

26 Jul 2021 1 3

Kais Saied

Inserted 2 years ago

“We have taken these decisions [firing the country's prime minister, freezing parliament's activities, lifting the immunity of all parliament members] ... until social peace returns to Tunisia and until we save the state.”

Apnews

President of Tunisia

25 Jul 2021 0 2

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“Not only is it unconscionable to abuse people and abandon them in the desert, but collective expulsions violate international law.”

“We want early presidential and legislative elections. We are in the midst of a political crisis and we must have a political dialogue to save the country.”

“The political elite is trying to state its presence in the public sphere in an act of resistance against the president's intent to monopolise the political process.”

“Tunisia is isolated internationally now with the closing of parliament and the coup … we want to restore democracy.”

“We are under one-man rule [Kais Saied] since July 25 … we will stay here until they open the roads and end the siege.”

“The future in Tunisia is really scary to me. For now, we don't know what we will have as institutions. We don't have a parliament, we don't have democracy in our country.”

“We are against the parliament, we are with Kais Saied. He is in the process of correcting and repairing our system. He is a democratic man.”

“We ask the president [Kais Saied] to dissolve parliament and hold accountable those who made the people suffer for a decade.”

“It is a positive sign that a woman [Najla Bouden Romdhane] will lead the government. I hope she will immediately start saving the country from the spectre of bankruptcy. She should quickly look at the problems of Tunisians.”

“For the first time in Tunisia's history, a woman will head a government [Najla Bouden Romdhane].”

“Saeed [Kais Saied] is against or opposed to many parts of the 2014 constitution - he wants a new regime and he's really willing to change the political system at probably any cost.”

“I have no choice. We must confront the coup for the sake of Tunisia.”

“I think this is the biggest crisis that the Ennahdha party has lived. It was expected since the tensions started one year ago. The extent of the mutiny had taken many observers by surprise.”

“We call on the people to take part in peaceful actions to resist dictatorship and return Tunisia to the path of democracy. The situation is worse now than it was before July 25. Before that there were no arrests over blog posts, no thousands of Tunisians banned from leaving the country.”

“Tunisia is heading towards absolute individual rule.”

“Amendments must be made within the framework of the constitution.”

“Our Tunisian affair should be resolved only among Tunisians, UGTT union will not participate in the invitation of the American embassy. UGTT did not accept the bullying of foreigners in the time of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and will not accept it today and tomorrow.”

“His supporters see in him [President Kais Saied] the last, best hope to achieve the goals of the revolution that were never realized. But we know clean people who genuinely want to achieve good aims can sometimes turn into people who chop off heads.”

“It's not that Kais [Kais Saied] is so popular himself, it's people who just really, really hate the incumbent political elite. They blame them for all the country's problems and think that they need to be removed.”

“Saied [Kais Saied] is a new Sisi who wants to collect all authority for himself ...We will stand up to the coup against the revolution.”

“We have taken these decisions [firing the country's prime minister, freezing parliament's activities, lifting the immunity of all parliament members] ... until social peace returns to Tunisia and until we save the state.”

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