{"id":193006,"date":"2025-03-07T03:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-abusive-conspiracy-trial-opens-in-tunis\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T03:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:05:25","slug":"tunisia-abusive-conspiracy-trial-opens-in-tunis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-abusive-conspiracy-trial-opens-in-tunis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Abusive Conspiracy Trial Opens in Tunis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Defendants Could Face the Death Penalty if Convicted<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">A long-awaited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/tunisia-begins-trial-prominent-opposition-leaders-conspiracy-charges-2025-03-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trial<\/a> for so-called conspiracy against the state began in Tunis on Monday. It should not be taking place. Forty people, including political opponents, activists, lawyers, and other public figures, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/03\/tunisia-puts-opposition-figures-mass-trial-decried-absurdity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> of &#8220;conspiracy against internal and external State security&#8221; and terrorism for plotting to overthrow the government of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/north-africa\/tunisia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tunisian<\/a> President Kais Saied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Human Rights Watch observed the trial and reviewed the investigating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503060021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendants Could Face the Death Penalty if Convicted A long-awaited trial for so-called conspiracy against the state began in Tunis on Monday. It should not be taking place. Forty people, including political opponents, activists, lawyers, and other public figures, are accused of &#8220;conspiracy against internal and external State security&#8221; and terrorism for plotting to overthrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":193007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[18552,258,256,16852,257,6975,254,6564,643,4703,653],"class_list":["post-193006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-abusive","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conspiracy","tag-news","tag-opens","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-tunis","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}