Since the ousting of its longtime autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, Tunisia has been slowly transitioning towards becoming a democracy. However, seven years later, a Freedom house report found that "Tunisia has come dangerously close to losing its status as the only ‘free’ country to emerge from the Arab Spring." So what's the state of human rights in Tunisia today? Tim Sebastian meets Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui at the Munich Security Conference.
Conflict Zone is Deutsche Welle's top political interview. Every week, our hosts Tim Sebastian and Michel Friedman are face-to-face with global decision-makers, seeking straight answers to straight questions, putting the spotlight on controversial issues and calling the powerful to account.
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