The denial of one inmate to attend its president Tunisian On television, he cost him additional months in prison! The reason for a Tunisian prisoner who was convicted today (11.07.2025) to six months in prison for refusing to watch the President of the country and Saiste on television, as his lawyer reported and a non -governmental organization.
While in his cell, while the news on television began, the prisoner “expressed his refusal to see the president’s activities”, according to a statement by the Tunisian Human Rights Annex (LTDH) in the city of Gafa.
One of his detainees denounced him, resulting in a prosecution and sentenced to six months in prison.
His lawyer, Adel Sgaier, said that His client, who was angry with the state leader, spoke abusive and asked to change channel when Sagad appeared on the screen. The prisoner had put them with the president Because it had been deported by Italy, where he lived without papers. According to the lawyer, he believed that Saged “destroyed his life” with his agreements with Italy on the repatriation of irregular immigrants.
The prisoner was accused on the basis of Article 67 of the Criminal Code, that is to say, of infringement of the head of the state, but the court to which he was referred to amended the category to ‘infringement of morals’In order not to give a “political dimension” to the case, the lawyer assured.
The man was imprisoned for another case, but he was rejected. His relatives learned that he was convicted of something else when they did not release him.
After President Mrs Sauged assumed all the powers in July 2021, Tunisian and foreign non -governmental organizations speak of limiting the rights and freedoms in the country that has been the cradle of “Arab Spring”. In her announcement, Ltdh talks about “even a policy of expanding to prisoners in their cells.”