European partnership for democracy, EPD

‘Disturbing turn for nascent Tunisian democracy’ struggling to balance rights and religion

"The challenges and dangers of Tunisia’s “balancing act of democracy and religion” are all too evident in a televised assault by Islamist protesters on two prominent journalists and a trial which Human Rights Watch considers “a disturbing turn for the nascent Tunisian democracy.” As The New York Times’s  Anthony Shadid observes: The challenges before Tunisia’s year-old revolution are immense — righting an ailing economy, drafting a new constitution and recovering from decades of dictatorship that cauterized civic life. But in the first months of a coalition government led by the Ennahda Party, seen as one of the most pragmatic of the (...)" Read more