Tunisia: Harsh Sentences in ‘Conspiracy Case’ Sham Trial

Quash Unfair Proceedings; End Abusive Mass Prosecutions

(Beirut) – A Tunisian court on April 19, 2025, sentenced 37 defendants to between 4 and 66 years in prison in the politically motivated “Conspiracy Case,” Human Rights Watch said today. The Tunis Court of First Instance issued the sentences after just three sessions in the mass trial, without providing the defendants with an adequate opportunity to present their defenses and without other due process protections.

On May 2, 2024, a Tunis…