THE GREAT ILLUSION

In December 2010, the popular uprising of the majority of the Tunisian people in search of freedom and justice, which caused the fall in less than a month of the political regime in place since November 7, 1987, highlighted the fragility of a power that was more feared than respected, and consequently less strong than it appeared to be. With the rigor and objectivity that an academic work requires, far from any bias, any narrow and narrow thinking, Lassaad Bennour analyzes with a lucid and subtle eye the dichotomy between the official discourse "celebrating" human rights and the daily and repeated violations of these same rights. This book-document, whose author was the first to evoke "the Tunisian spring" many years before its advent, scrutinizes, with originality, examples, and other testimonies, the approach of the authorities in terms of freedoms and sheds new light on an important part of the legal and political history of post-independent Tunisia.