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Tunisia, once a democracy, has fallen into the grip of a dictator. A recent mass trial of critics of President Kais Saied, resulting in appalling sentences <\/a> of up to 66 years, marks a new low point in an ongoing authoritarian crackdown.<\/p>\n The trial offered a mockery of justice. Some 40 people faced broad charges of \u2018plotting to destabilise Tunisia\u2019 and \u2018membership of a terrorist group\u2019. Over half were tried in absentia, having fled a country where fair trials have been made impossible….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Tunisia, once a democracy, has fallen into the grip of a dictator. A recent mass trial of critics of President Kais Saied, resulting in appalling sentences of up to 66 years, marks a new low point in an ongoing authoritarian crackdown. The trial offered a mockery of justice. Some 40 people faced broad charges of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660151:543629e7dbfbad0633d5a817ce798f4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,30242,2622,4337,6424,257,12040,254,653,6684,8907],"class_list":["post-197760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-descent","tag-dictatorship","tag-international","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-scrutiny","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias","tag-urgently"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660151:543629e7dbfbad0633d5a817ce798f4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197760","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=197760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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