Human Rights Watch warns against recent arrests and disappearances as turn in wrong direction | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The referral of a businessman to trial before a military court, and the incommunicado detention of seven other men in undisclosed locations, is a threat to human rights in Tunisia, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Authorities arrested the well-connected businessman, and seven other men, between May 23 and 25, 2017. They placed them under “house…