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As Tunisia grapples with a security and economic crisis that threatens to derail its democratic transition, it faces a serious new challenge: a presidential initiative to grant amnesty to former regime figures, state agents and business executives accused of corruption and other economic crimes. If implemented, the proposal would set back accountability and transitional justice.
Tunisia’s government agreed the draft law on “Reconciliation in the economic and financial sectors” on July 14 and forwarded it to parliament, which has yet to set a timetable for its adoption.
