Learn more

A Tunisian lawyer and media figure was sentenced to one year in prison over comments critical of the country, her family said on Saturday. Sonia Dahmani was arrested on May 11 after masked police raided the Tunisian national bar association, where she had sought refuge, and detained her following comments she had made on TV. The comments in question were made during a programme on the Carthage Plus TV channel, while Dahmani was responding to another pundit’s claim that sub-Saharan migrants were seeking to settle in Tunisia. “What extraordinary country are we talking about?” she had asked sarca…

cuu