The Latest Breaking News from Tunisia

Tunisian media say a court has sentenced leading opposition figures to between 13 and 66 years in prison

Dozens of defendants found guilty of “conspiracy against state security” and given sentences of 13 to 66 years.

The non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released a new report on Tunisia, denouncing the government's use of arbitrary detention as “a cornerstone of its repressive policy” and claiming it is designed to strip individuals of their civil and political rights.

Asylum requests of migrants coming from EU candidate countries and seven other countries will be assessed in fast-track procedures.

Human rights groups say drop is partly due to EU policies that turn blind eye to rights abuses in countries such as Libya and Tunisia

The trial of dozens of Tunisian opposition figures resumed on Tuesday under tight security, with six detained defendants on hunger strike after they were barred from attending court in person.

Trial of more than 40 people charged with plotting against the state, including prominent politicians, resumes Friday.

Authorities suggested more than 20,000 people were sheltering in the camps, which are near a part of the coastline located less than 161 kilometres from the Italian islands that form the European Union's outermost borders.

Tunisia is pushing migrants farther away from North Africa's Mediterranean coastline as part of a broader effort to prevent them from trying to cross to Europe by sea