{"id":243186,"date":"2026-09-04T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-court-upholds-unjust-conspiracy-convictions\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:00:52","slug":"tunisia-court-upholds-unjust-conspiracy-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-court-upholds-unjust-conspiracy-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Court Upholds Unjust Conspiracy Convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Beirut \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/north-africa\/tunisia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tunisia&#8217;s<\/a> Court of Cassation on September 3, 2026, upheld the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/11\/28\/tunisia-harsh-sentences-in-conspiracy-case-appeal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">convictions<\/a> and heavy sentences of 34 people for &#8220;conspiracy against state security&#8221; and terrorism offenses in November 2025. Human Rights Watch had criticized the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/11\/14\/tunisia-overturn-unjust-conspiracy-trial-convictions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier trial<\/a> as unjust and a sham, with final sentences ranging from 5 to 45 years. The Court of Cassation, Tunisia&#8217;s highest court, was the final avenue for overturning the convictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The following quote can be attributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/about\/people\/bassam-khawaja\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bassam Khawaja<\/a>, deputy Middle East&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Beirut \u2014 Tunisia&#8217;s Court of Cassation on September 3, 2026, upheld the convictions and heavy sentences of 34 people for &#8220;conspiracy against state security&#8221; and terrorism offenses in November 2025. Human Rights Watch had criticized the earlier trial as unjust and a sham, with final sentences ranging from 5 to 45 years. The Court of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":243187,"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":[258,256,16852,24641,6185,257,254,4703,653,30028,8170],"class_list":["post-243186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conspiracy","tag-convictions","tag-court","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-unjust","tag-upholds"],"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\/243186","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=243186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}