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Tunisia: lawyer arrested for criticizing the regime
Tunisia: lawyer arrested for criticizing the regime
(FRANCE 2)
On Saturday May 11, Tunisian police officers arrested lawyer Sonia Dahmani, who had made sarcastic remarks about the situation in the country a week earlier on a television set.
The Tunisian police had never dared to storm the Bar Association. It is now done. Saturday May 11, in Tunis (Tunisia), hooded agents of the security forces arrested Sonia Dahmani, lawyer, to the cries of her colleagues. A week ago, on a television set, she was ironic after a remark on the migration situation in Tunisia. “But what extraordinary country are we talking about?”she said.
Authoritarianism denounced by hundreds of demonstrators
Sonia Dahmani is being prosecuted for endangering public safety and inciting hatred, the consequence of a decree promulgated by Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed in 2022, considered liberticidal by the opposition. Authoritarianism denounced by hundreds of demonstrators, Sunday May 12, in Tunis. In recent years, executive policy has hardened considerably. In a year and a half, more than 60 people have been arrested in the country for political reasons.
