TUNIS: Tunisian authorities have lifted a ban on the local branch of prominent international NGO Avocats Sans Frontieres, the branch said on Wednesday without providing further details on the measure.
ASF said in a statement it was “resuming activities starting May 20” after the ban, imposed on May 5, was lifted.
The rights group had received a 30-day suspension, days after another prominent group, which won a Nobel Peace Prize, was targeted by a similar ban.
The group had condemned the ban as “an unjustified infringement on the freedom of civil action and a clear targeting of independent spaces that strive to serve the public good and promote the values of solidarity, justice and the rule of law.”
The temporary suspension had come 10 days after the Tunisian League for Human Rights, which won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize alongside three other groups, also had its operations suspended for a month.
