Hommam Al Nassim 
Tunisian lawyers went on strike Thursday at the Palace of Justice in Tunis.
The website of Radio “Mosaic” reported that the lawyers also carried out a protest and a day of anger in front of the Palace of Justice, while journalists were prevented from covering the vigil inside the court, prompting lawyers to go out to the street and complete the vigil in front of the Palace of Justice and the headquarters of the Bar Association.
The lawyers’ strike and their vigil in all courts of Greater Tunis came in protest against what they considered “restrictions on the defense while exercising its right to defend rights and freedoms”.
The lawyers also denounced “the deteriorating working conditions within the judicial facility”, according to the head of the subsidiary body of lawyers in Tunisia, Laaroussi Zgeir, who stressed that the Tunis branch of lawyers will take escalatory steps following this move if the Ministry of Justice does not respond to their demands.
The head of the lawyers’ branch in Tunisia pointed out that the escalatory steps include boycotting criminal hearings and prosecution with the beginning researcher, after the meeting of the branch council of the bar association soon.
The Tunisian General Labor Union, the country’s largest trade union organization, held a workers’ gathering in the Kasbah in March to protest the disruption of social dialogue and to demand that the government sit at the negotiating table and implement the agreements.
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