Government critics in Tunisia are facing a new wave of arrests in Tunisia. Democracy has been backsliding there since President Kais Saied came to power in 2019. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Tarek Megerisi, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, about what’s behind the arrests and what this means for Tunisia.
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