Judicial observation mission – Hearing of Sonia Dahmani (Tunisia)
Trial observation of: Sonia Dahmani
Date of mission: 29 June – 1 July 2025
Date of the report: July 2025
Description: The OIAD, represented by its delegates Noémie Saidi-Cottier (Paris) and Alessandro Magoni (Brescia), attended the trial of Tunisian lawyer Sonia Dahmani on Monday 30 June 2025. She is currently being held in the women’s prison in Manouba, in a high-security wing under strict surveillance.
Ms. Dahmani had previously been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, reduced to eighteen months on appeal, for statements she made about racist practices and behaviour in Tunisia against Black people and people from the sub-Saharan region, more specifically for denouncing racist practices and the situation of sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia on a national radio station in 2021.
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