Tunisian Journalists and Opposition Leaders Face Prison Sentences.

A Tunisian appeals court has sentenced radio journalist Khalifa Guesmi to five years in prison for disclosing information about the country's security services. Guesmi was found guilty of intentionally disclosing "information relating to operations of interception, infiltration, audiovisual surveillance or data collection". The sentence was denounced by several local and international rights groups and labour organisations as a "major setback for the judicial system" and a "flagrant attack on the freedom of the press". The decline in civic freedoms in Tunisia has been criticised since the president, Kais Saied, launched a sweeping power-grab in July 2021.