{"id":196075,"date":"2025-04-15T04:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-jailed-tunisian-commentator-sonia-dahmani-faces-10-year-sentence-after-charges-elevated-to-felony\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:48:38","slug":"tunisia-jailed-tunisian-commentator-sonia-dahmani-faces-10-year-sentence-after-charges-elevated-to-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-jailed-tunisian-commentator-sonia-dahmani-faces-10-year-sentence-after-charges-elevated-to-felony\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Jailed Tunisian Commentator Sonia Dahmani Faces 10-Year &#8211; Sentence After Charges Elevated to Felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">New York \u2014 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of political commentator Sonia Dahmani after the Tunis Court of Appeals reclassified charges against her as a felony, a move that could lead to a 10-year prison sentence over Dahmani&#8217;s critique of prison conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">&#8220;The reclassification of imprisoned commentator Sonia Dahmani&#8217;s charges as a felony is yet another alarming escalation in the Tunisian government&#8217;s use of cybercrime Decree Law 54 to intimidate and punish&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504140201.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>New York \u2014 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of political commentator Sonia Dahmani after the Tunis Court of Appeals reclassified charges against her as a felony, a move that could lead to a 10-year prison sentence over Dahmani&#8217;s critique of prison conditions. &#8220;The reclassification of imprisoned commentator Sonia Dahmani&#8217;s charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[7934,258,256,7578,22330,48995,34917,5080,51125,5696,257,7355,43921,254,4703,653,6932],"class_list":["post-196075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-10year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charges","tag-commentator","tag-dahmani","tag-elevated","tag-faces","tag-felony","tag-jailed","tag-news","tag-sentence","tag-sonia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196075","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=196075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}