The Latest Breaking News from Kais Saied

Human Rights Watch criticized Friday the wave of arrests that Tunisia has been recently witnessing. “The message in these arrests is that if you dare to speak out, the president can have you arrested and publicly denounce you,” it said.

Tunisian police on Friday arrested Ghazi Chaouachi, the prominent critic of President Kais Saied, Ghazi's son said, the latest arrest targeting the president's opponents.

Tunisian police have arrested Jawher Ben Mbarek, a major critic of President Kais Saied, his sister said, bringing most of the main leaders of the National Salvation Front opposition movement into detention.

Tunisian President Kais Saied called Thursday for his government to take care of "legal" migrants from sub-Saharan Africa while doubling down on controversial remarks that illegal immigration was causing "demographic" change. "People who are legally in Tunisia should be reassured," Saied said during a meeting with Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine…

The Tunisian president on Thursday repeated his assertion that an increase of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa was part of a conspiracy to change Tunisia's demographics and denied criticism by rights groups that his views were racist.

Tunisian authorities say they have arrested dozens of migrants near the Algerian border, two days after Tunisia’s increasingly authoritarian leader claimed there’s a plot to erase his country’s identity by bringing in sub-Saharan Africans

Tunisian police on Thursday detained Ezzedine Hazgui, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied and the father of another prominent dissident, Jawher Ben Mbarek, Hazgui's daughter said.

Kais Saied claims migrants are part of campaign to make country ‘purely African’ in move critics say is to distract from economic crisis

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

Tunisian rights groups accused on Wednesday President Kais Saied of racism and hate speech after he said "hordes" of sub-Saharan African migrants were causing crime and posed a demographic threat. A statement from his office, decrying "a criminal plot...

Tunisian police detained two prominent dissidents and surrounded the home of a third on Wednesday, part of an escalating crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied, who has labelled his opponents traitors and criminals.