{"id":243322,"date":"2026-09-05T08:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-upheld-convictions-in-mass-conspiracy-case-a-travesty-of-justice\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:02:57","slug":"tunisia-upheld-convictions-in-mass-conspiracy-case-a-travesty-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-upheld-convictions-in-mass-conspiracy-case-a-travesty-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Upheld Convictions in Mass &#8216;Conspiracy Case&#8217; a Travesty of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In response to the Tunis Court of Cassation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2026\/09\/tunisia-final-judicial-avenue-to-overturn-convictions-in-unjust-conspiracy-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upholding<\/a> the convictions and lengthy prison sentences against 34 defendants in the politically motivated &#8216;conspiracy case&#8217;, Yasmine Ahmed, Amnesty International&#8217;s Senior Director for Regional Human Rights Impact, said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">&#8220;The Tunis Court of Cassation&#8217;s decision to uphold these unjust convictions is a devastating blow to justice and an appalling indictment of the Tunisian justice system. By validating these draconian sentences, ranging up to 45 years,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040402.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>In response to the Tunis Court of Cassation upholding the convictions and lengthy prison sentences against 34 defendants in the politically motivated &#8216;conspiracy case&#8217;, Yasmine Ahmed, Amnesty International&#8217;s Senior Director for Regional Human Rights Impact, said: &#8220;The Tunis Court of Cassation&#8217;s decision to uphold these unjust convictions is a devastating blow to justice and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":243323,"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\/00680209:f23c85d60a2d9e77b04a76eb9c5d5586:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6683,16852,24641,6852,7883,257,254,48890,4703,653,35045],"class_list":["post-243322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-conspiracy","tag-convictions","tag-justice","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-travesty","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-upheld"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680209:f23c85d60a2d9e77b04a76eb9c5d5586:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243322","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=243322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}