Tunisian lawyer and commentator Sonia Dahmani, a vocal critic of President Kaïs Saïed, has been handed a further two-year sentence after already spending 18 months in detention.
Tunisia's silencing of lawyer-journalist Sonia Dahmani with yet another two-year sentence exposes the continent-wide authoritarian playbook of weaponizing courts against media voices that dare challenge power. While Dahmani walks free for now, her five pending cases mirror the judicial harassment tactics deployed from Kampala to Cairo, where press freedom dies not in dramatic raids but through the slow strangulation of endless prosecutions. Tunisia's revolution may have inspired the Arab Spring, but Kaïs Saïed's authoritarian drift now serves as a cautionary tale for every African democracy teetering between accountability and autocracy.
Tunisia's silencing of lawyer-journalist Sonia Dahmani with yet another two-year sentence exposes the continent-wide authoritarian playbook of weaponizing courts against media voices that dare challenge power. While Dahmani walks free for now, her five pending cases mirror the judicial harassment tactics deployed from Kampala to Cairo, where press freedom dies not in dramatic raids but through the slow strangulation of endless prosecutions. Tunisia's revolution may have inspired the Arab Spring, but Kaïs Saïed's authoritarian drift now serves as a cautionary tale for every African democracy teetering between accountability and autocracy.
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