Protests by Journalists and Supporters Forces Government to Solidify Tunisia Freedom of Speech
Tunisia articles on Democracy Chronicles
News about the struggle for better democracy in Tunisia. According to Freedom House, the "post-Arab Spring balloting of October 2011 represented a dramatic improvement in electoral freedoms and practices". Also check out our section on World Democracy and our articles about the Arab Spring.
The Arab Spring is Still Blooming
There is a new phenomenon called democracy in the Arab world and there should be no question that this is a remarkably positive turn of events that should continue to be supported by people of good will the world over.
Tunisia Might Hold Elections Early After PM Comment
Drama as Birthplace of Arab Spring Continues With News That Tunisia Might Hold Elections Early
Tunisia’s Dictator Gets 20 Years For Inciting Murder
Birthplace of Arab Spring Moves Forward With Revolutionary Democratic Changes as Tunisia’s Dictator Gets 20 Years in Prison From Courts He Once Controlled
Tunisia’s Dictator on Trial For Murder
Arab Spring Birthplace Sees Trial of Century as Tunisia’s Dictator on Trial for Murder
Tunisian Moderate March Banned as Unrest Grows
Arab Spring Birthplace Sees Struggle Over Form of State Build as Tunisian Moderate March Banned
Tunisia Protesters End Weeks of Anti-Dictatorship Sit-ins
Anti-Dictatorship Sit-ins: Protests Reflect Strength of Tunisian Civil Society in Birthplace of Arab Spring
Tunisia Offers Syria Dictator Assad Asylum Despite Violence
Mass Killings Drawing Increasing International Attention With New Offer of Dictator Assad Asylum
The Common Sense of Thomas Paine in the Arab World
Thomas Paine in the Arab World: Hopefully, over time and with some luck, it will gradually become possible for Arab citizens to see their politicians in the same honorable light as American citizens see our politicians: a necessary evil