{"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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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>\u00a0<\/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}]}}