Sihem Bensedrine (Arabic: سهام بن سدرين; born 28 October, 1950) is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist.

From 1999, Bensedrine and her businesses were subject to numerous police and judicial actions including confiscation and destruction of property and a personal libel campaign in which she was portrayed as a prostitute, because of her freedom of the press and human rights activities.

[2] On 17 June 2001, Bensedrine appeared on the "Le Grand Maghreb", Al Mustaquilla television station, based in London.

[3] On 26 June 2001, she was arrested at the airport in Tunis Carthage after a television interview in which she denounced human rights abuses, including systematic use of torture and widespread judicial corruption.

She was accused of spreading "false news with an aim towards disturbing public order",[3] "defamation"[3] and "undermining the judicial institution".

[1] In 2008, she received The Danish Peace Fund Prize as an acknowledgment of her unyielding commitment to the cause of democracy and rule of a law in her home country and for her efforts to organize networks among human rights activist in the Arab world.

[16] In the late 1970s Bensedrine and other members of the Tunisian Human Rights League collectively won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.