A crackdown by Tunisian authorities on journalists and media figures is “methodically annihilating” what little remains of the country’s hard-won freedoms, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. The rights groups said in a joint statement that authorities have “ramped up” their “repression of free speech” under Decree 54, a law against “false news”, as the country readies for presidential elections set to take place this autumn. “By attacking journalists and other media figures, Saied’s government is moving to put the last nail in the coffin of Tunisia’s civic space,” L…