Tunisian Journalist Khaoula Boukrim Sentenced in Absentia to 4 Years in Prison

New York — Tunisian authorities should immediately overturn the four-year prison sentence imposed in absentia on prominent journalist Khaoula Boukrim, founder of local independent news website TUMEDIA, and stop using cybercrime Decree-Law 54 to prosecute journalists and critics for their reporting and expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.

Boukrim, who fled to France in December 2025, learned on June 8 that a Tunisian court had convicted her on February 26 in two…