The School of Tunisia

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March 2025

Nelle's story: Part 2
Nelle, the Cameroonian migrant woman, tells the second part of her story: Another two failed migration attempts, a neonatal death, and a hospital staff…
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Jakob Plaschke
#9: Hasta la vista, ya Tunis
Diplomats are doing the most, lawyer is working on overtime, and the journalist wonders: Will I ever make it out? Then, one morning: "The case is…
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Jakob Plaschke
Nelle's story: Part 1
Nelle, the Cameroonian migrant woman, tells the first part of her story: Fleeing tear gas, sleeping out in the open and being intercepted at sea by the…
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Jakob Plaschke

February 2025

#8: How long must this go on?
The journalist finds himself waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts are finally ramping up to a culmination...
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Jakob Plaschke
#7: Bleak October
Five months after his arrest, the journalist is presented with a 'discrete' solution that feels mostly like an insult. Meanwhile, the stakes are raised…
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#6: Slow progress, or no progress?
Having finally broken the wall of bureaucratic sabotage, the journalist was ready to engage the institutions. But what if those institutions were…
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Jakob Plaschke
#5: Why can't I travel?
After being denied his right to leave Tunisia, the journalist finds himself facing a never-ending search for basic information about his case...
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Jakob Plaschke

January 2025

#4: "You cannot travel"
As the journalist attempts to go back to 'normal life', he gets thrown for a loop as he is blocked from leaving Tunisia...
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#3: "Welcome to the school of Tunisia"
The investigation reaches Tunisia's most specialized investigation unit, and once again, the journalist and the activist find themselves astounded that…
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Jakob Plaschke
#2: A day in court
In a court in Sfax, a journalist and an activist find themselves faced with a calculator-wielding judge, throwing around theories of espionage...
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#1: Arrested - but why?
On an early-summer evening in Sfax, a black African woman speaking with a journalist was enough to attract the attention of the local police...
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