{"id":25223,"date":"2026-03-12T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/tunisie-mission-dobservation-judiciaire-proces-de-sonia-dahmani\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:09:04","slug":"judicial-observation-mission-trial-of-sonia-dahmani-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/judicial-observation-mission-trial-of-sonia-dahmani-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial observation mission &#8211; trial of Sonia Dahmani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trial observation of<\/strong>: Sonia Dahmani<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of hearing<\/strong>: 6 February, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report date<\/strong>: 11 March, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>This report sets out the conclusions of the judicial observation mission, in which Benedetta Perego participated on behalf of the OIAD, to attend the trial held on 6 February 2026 against Tunisian lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani.<\/p>\n<p>Dahmani is the victim of multiple criminal proceedings linked to her public statements criticising Tunisia&#8217;s migration policies, racism and prison conditions in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The report analyses the context of the trial observed, based on accusations of \u201cdissemination of false information\u201d under Decree-Law No. 54 of 2022, a widely criticised regulation for its use in prosecuting crimes of opinion. It also examines the conduct of the hearing, the lawyer&#8217;s legal situation and concerns about respect for freedom of expression, the rule of law and guarantees of the right to defence in Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing was postponed until 24 March 2026; a further postponement is expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TUNIS-6.2.26-OIAD-Mission-report.docx_signed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Read the mission report<\/em><\/strong>:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial observation of: Sonia Dahmani Date of hearing: 6 February, 2026 Report date: 11 March, 2026 Description: This report sets out the conclusions of the judicial observation mission, in which Benedetta Perego participated on behalf of the OIAD, to attend the trial held on 6 February 2026 against Tunisian lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani. Dahmani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25231,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions\/25231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}