{"id":202250,"date":"2025-07-12T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-sentences-sister-in-absentia-for-advocating-for-jailed-journalist-sonia-dahmani\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:31:40","slug":"tunisia-sentences-sister-in-absentia-for-advocating-for-jailed-journalist-sonia-dahmani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-sentences-sister-in-absentia-for-advocating-for-jailed-journalist-sonia-dahmani\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Sentences Sister in Absentia for Advocating for Jailed Journalist Sonia Dahmani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">New York \u2014 CPJ urges Tunisian authorities to cease the prosecution of family members of journalists advocating for their release after a Tunis court on July 1 sentenced in absentia Ramla Dahmani, the sister of imprisoned lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani, to two years in prison on false news charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">&#8220;Tunisian authorities are not only jailing journalists but are now targeting their families in a clear effort to intimidate and isolate them even further,&#8221; said Carlos Mart\u00ednez de la&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507100025.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 CPJ urges Tunisian authorities to cease the prosecution of family members of journalists advocating for their release after a Tunis court on July 1 sentenced in absentia Ramla Dahmani, the sister of imprisoned lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani, to two years in prison on false news charges. &#8220;Tunisian authorities are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202251,"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\/00611014:192e395453d418974eb48bf2f5ae3fb2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[20648,18610,258,256,48995,5696,7277,257,9735,12335,43921,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-202250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-absentia","tag-advocating","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dahmani","tag-jailed","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-sentences","tag-sister","tag-sonia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611014:192e395453d418974eb48bf2f5ae3fb2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202250","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=202250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}