In Tunisia, the Truth and Dignity Commission (TDC) was established for truth-seeking operations in charge of investigating and documenting past wrongdoings committed by the state’s institutions, officials and non-state actors working for the state from July 1st, 1955 until December 24th, 2013. Detailing the systems of corruption and repression in place under Ben Ali’s rule publicly exposing the authoritarian machinery, the final report of the TDC in Tunisia sets a new standard for truth-seeking mechanisms in the region. The findings and recommendations report, made public in December 2018, revolved around two main axis a system of repression from one side and system of corruption on the other. Using thematic analysis to code terms referring to socio-economic violations, human rights violations and the link between the two groups of violations, I put forward in this paper that the Commission established a direct link between repression related violations like enforced disappearances, torture, sexual violence, forced migration for political reasons as well as corruption related violations like misuse of public funds, embezzlement and election fraud. The report clearly highlights that to survive, an authoritarian regime relies on socio-economic violations to control financially the population and human rights violations to scare opponents using state and non-state institutions, also called state violence. In the report, dismantling the despotic system involves the network of security, professional, economic, financial and media control reinforced by the judicial and political forces. Dismantling the corruption system details financial corruption, abuse of public funds and the correlation between financial corruption and human rights violations. The clear and direct correlation between repression and corruption in the report confirms that violations of socio-economic and human rights cannot be separately understood in the context of authoritarianism; a conception that was clearly reflected by protesters who took to the streets in Tunisia ten years ago claiming jobs, freedom, social justice, the end of police brutality and democracy.