{"id":25322,"date":"2026-03-24T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/mission-dobservation-judiciaire-proces-dahmed-souab\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:09:04","slug":"judicial-observation-mission-trial-of-ahmed-souab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/judicial-observation-mission-trial-of-ahmed-souab\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial observation mission &#8211; trial of Ahmed Souab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trial observation of:<\/strong> Ahmed Souab<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of hearing: <\/strong>23 February 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report date: <\/strong>March 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong>Alessandro Magoni (Brescia) represented the OIAD during the trial of Ahmed Souab in Tunis on 23 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Souab was arrested in April 2025 after criticising the judicial system and stating that \u201clawyers are not the only ones with a knife to their throat; judges find themselves in the same situation.\u201d Following the first-instance proceedings, the lawyer was sentenced to five years\u2019 imprisonment and three years of administrative supervision. The present trial observation mission concerned the conduct of the appeal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read the mission report<\/em><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rapporto-Missione-23-febbraio-2026-Tunisi-IT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13102 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bandera-Italia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rapporto-Missione-23-febbraio-2026-Tunisi-FR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7569 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bandera_francesa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial observation of: Ahmed Souab Date of hearing: 23 February 2026 Report date: March 2026 Description: Alessandro Magoni (Brescia) represented the OIAD during the trial of Ahmed Souab in Tunis on 23 February 2026. Mr Souab was arrested in April 2025 after criticising the judicial system and stating that \u201clawyers are not the only ones [&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-25322","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\/25322","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=25322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25330,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322\/revisions\/25330"}],"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=25322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}