While more than twenty political opponents have been arrested since mid-February, not counting legal pressure on several journalists, a group of civil society associations and judges have organized an international colloquium dedicated to independence justice this Saturday. In a context where political rallies and demonstrations are circumscribed and monitored, a host of opponents, judges, defenders of rights but also international representatives came to attend this inventory of justice, under pressure.
More than a hundred people are present at this international seminar for an independent justice… Ouajah Jabeur is in charge of programs in the associative network Euromed Rights. “The question of the judiciary is inseparable from the question of rights and freedoms. We cannot claim rights, we cannot guarantee a fair trial if we do not have effective and independent justice.
Since the dissolution of the Superior Council of the Judiciary and the dismissal of 57 judges by the Presidency of the Republic in 2022, justice has been under pressure. ” We put people in prison because of a police report, without sending them any charges and it becomes customary”.
José Igreja Matos, president of the International Union of Judges is worried about this drift of power. “We must denounce, we must have a public voice, obviously we do not want to mix or interfere with the internal situation of the country, it is not our role but only to alert.”
On May 18, a teacher from Gafsa in southwestern Tunisia was taken to court for a Facebook status critical of President Kaïs Saïed. On May 23, two young people go before the Nabeul court in the north-east of the country for a satirical video on the police and the law against narcotics…
