Academics, rights advocates and former diplomats in the United States have called on President Joe Biden to suspend aid to Tunisia and impose sanctions on its leaders to halt what they called the North African country’s “dramatic turn” towards authoritarian rule.In a letter addressed to Biden earlier this week, nearly two dozen signatories warned that democracy in Tunisia was “dying” as President Kais Saied continues to consolidate power and crack down on dissent.“If the US is truly serious about shoring up democracies worldwide, it must send a signal that there are real costs to democratic backsliding,” Wednesday’s letter reads.
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