Human Rights Watch: Tunisia - Harsh Sentence Against Blogger
November 25, 2020
November 25, 2020
NEW YORK, Nov. 25 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on Nov. 24:
A Tunis court on November 12, 2020 sentenced a blogger, Wajdi Mahouechi, to two years in prison for posting a Facebook video that a court official deemed offensive, Human Rights Watch said today.
Mahouechi, 31, a frequent commentator on issues of public interest, posted a video on November 1 to his Facebook page that denounced a Tunis public prosecutor's failure to arrest and open an i . . .
A Tunis court on November 12, 2020 sentenced a blogger, Wajdi Mahouechi, to two years in prison for posting a Facebook video that a court official deemed offensive, Human Rights Watch said today.
Mahouechi, 31, a frequent commentator on issues of public interest, posted a video on November 1 to his Facebook page that denounced a Tunis public prosecutor's failure to arrest and open an i . . .