{"id":219459,"date":"2026-01-06T22:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/north-africa-tunisia-court-frees-ngo-workers-accused-of-helping-migrants\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:35:44","slug":"north-africa-tunisia-court-frees-ngo-workers-accused-of-helping-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/north-africa-tunisia-court-frees-ngo-workers-accused-of-helping-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: Tunisia Court Frees NGO Workers Accused of Helping Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em> A Tunisian court has freed a group of humanitarian workers after handing them suspended sentences for facilitating the &#8220;illegal entry and residence&#8221; of migrants, a support committee said on Tuesday. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Sherifa Riahi, the former director of the French NGO Terre d&#8217;Asile, and several members of her staff had already spent more than 20 months in jail by the time of their final hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Hours after the hearing, Riahi&#8217;s support committee posted a video of her leaving prison overnight,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060100.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>A Tunisian court has freed a group of humanitarian workers after handing them suspended sentences for facilitating the &#8220;illegal entry and residence&#8221; of migrants, a support committee said on Tuesday. Sherifa Riahi, the former director of the French NGO Terre d&#8217;Asile, and several members of her staff had already spent more than 20 months in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219460,"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":[7083,258,256,6185,9978,10633,6928,257,9222,6732,254,4703,653,6498],"class_list":["post-219459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-frees","tag-helping","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-ngo","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-workers"],"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\/219459","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=219459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}