{"id":237899,"date":"2026-07-01T17:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-executive-capture-of-the-judiciary-and-the-criminalization-of-the-legal-profession\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:40:54","slug":"tunisia-executive-capture-of-the-judiciary-and-the-criminalization-of-the-legal-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-executive-capture-of-the-judiciary-and-the-criminalization-of-the-legal-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Executive Capture of the Judiciary and the Criminalization of the Legal Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Civil society joint statement &#8211; ID with SR on independence of judges and lawyers &#8211; HRC62<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em>This joint civil society statement was delivered by the International Commission of Jurists at the 62nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council during an<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/webtv.un.org\/en\/asset\/k1g\/k1gk1e25hv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers<\/em><\/a> <em>held on June 25, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">Madame Special Rapporteur,<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In Tunisia, the systematic dismantling of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607010159.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>Civil society joint statement &#8211; ID with SR on independence of judges and lawyers &#8211; HRC62 This joint civil society statement was delivered by the International Commission of Jurists at the 62nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council during an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237900,"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":[258,256,11596,51739,7631,9830,6393,257,15333,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-237899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capture","tag-criminalization","tag-executive","tag-judiciary","tag-legal","tag-news","tag-profession","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/237899","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=237899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}